2 Kings 24:7

24:7 The king of Egypt did not march out from his land again, for the king of Babylon conquered all the territory that the king of Egypt had formerly controlled between the Brook of Egypt and the Euphrates River.

2 Kings 25:1

25:1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside ¹  it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign. ² 

2 Kings 25:11

25:11 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, deported the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. ³ 

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ⁴  day of the twelfth month, ⁵  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁶  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ⁷  from prison.

[25:1]  ¹ tn Or “against.”

[25:1]  ² sn This would have been Jan 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).

[25:11]  ¹ tc The MT has “the multitude.” But הֶהָמוֹן (hehamon) should probably be emended to הֶאָמוֹן (he’amon).

[25:27]  ¹ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

[25:27]  ² sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:27]  ³ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[25:27]  ⁴ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.