2 Kings 25:3

25:3 By the ninth day of the fourth month ¹  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ²  had no food.

2 Kings 25:1

25:1 So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside ³  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. ⁴ 

2 Kings 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh ⁵  day of the fifth month, ⁶  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ⁷  who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. ⁸ 

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 ⁹  day of the twelfth month, ¹⁰  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ¹¹  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ¹²  from prison.

[25:3]  ¹ tn The MT has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the MT of 2 Kgs 25:3.

[25:3]  ² tn Heb “the people of the land.”

[25:1]  ³ tn Or “against.”

[25:1]  ⁴ 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).

[25:8]  ⁵ tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

[25:8]  ⁶ sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:8]  ⁷ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[25:8]  ⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[25:27]  ⁷ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

[25:27]  ⁸ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[25:27]  ¹⁰ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.