Jeremiah 52:4

52:4 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it. ¹  They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year that Zedekiah ruled over Judah. ² 

Jeremiah 52:12

52:12 On the tenth ³  day of the fifth month, ⁴  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ⁵  who served ⁶  the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 52:31

Jehoiachin in Exile

52:31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth ⁷  day of the twelfth month, ⁸  Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁹  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

¹ tn Or “against.”

² sn This would have been January 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).

³ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”

⁴ sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

⁵ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

⁶ tn Heb “stood before.”

⁵ sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

⁶ sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

⁷ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”