Jeremiah 52:12

52:12 On the tenth ¹  day of the fifth month, ²  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ³  who served ⁴  the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 52:15

52:15 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took into exile some of the poor, ⁵  the rest of the people who remained in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the rest of the craftsmen.

Jeremiah 52:2

52:2 He did what displeased the Lord ⁶  just as Jehoiakim had done.

Jeremiah 25:8

25:8 “Therefore, the Lord who rules over all ⁷  says, ‘You have not listened to what I said. ⁸ 

Zechariah 7:5

7:5 “Speak to all the people and priests of the land as follows: ‘When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh ⁹  months through all these seventy years, did you truly fast for me – for me, indeed?

Zechariah 8:19

8:19 “The Lord who rules over all says, ‘The fast of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth ¹⁰  months will become joyful and happy, pleasant feasts for the house of Judah, so love truth and peace.’

¹ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”

² sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

³ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

⁴ tn Heb “stood before.”

⁵ tn Heb “poor of the people.”

⁹ tn Heb “what was evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

¹³ tn Heb “Yahweh of armies.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “You have not listened to my words.”

¹⁷ tn The seventh month apparently refers to the anniversary of the assassination of Gedaliah, governor of Judah (Jer 40:13-14; 41:1), in approximately 581 b.c.

²¹ sn The fasts of the fifth and seventh months, mentioned previously (7:5), are listed here along with the observances of the fourth and tenth months. The latter commemorated the siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonians on January 15, 588 b.c. (2 Kgs 25:1), and the former the breach of the city walls on or about July 18, 586 b.c. (Jer 39:2-5).