Jeremiah 1:3

1:3 The Lord also spoke to him when Jehoiakim son of Josiah ruled over Judah, and he continued to speak to him until the fifth month of the eleventh year ¹  that Zedekiah son of Josiah ruled over Judah. That was when the people of Jerusalem ²  were taken into exile. ³ 

Jeremiah 25:12

25:12 “‘But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation ⁴  for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon ⁵  an everlasting ruin. ⁶  I, the Lord, affirm it! ⁷ 

Jeremiah 29:10

29:10 “For the Lord says, ‘Only when the seventy years of Babylonian rule ⁸  are over will I again take up consideration for you. ⁹  Then I will fulfill my gracious promise to you and restore ¹⁰  you to your homeland. ¹¹ 

Jeremiah 52:12

52:12 On the tenth ¹²  day of the fifth month, ¹³  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ¹⁴  who served ¹⁵  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 ¹⁶  day of the twelfth month, ¹⁷  Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ¹⁸  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

[1:3]  ¹ sn This would have been August, 586 b.c. according to modern reckoning.

[1:3]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[1:3]  ³ tn Heb “and it [the word of the Lord] came in the days of Jehoiakim…until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah…until the carrying away captive of Jerusalem in the fifth month.”

[25:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “that nation.”

[25:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “the land of the Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4 for the use of the term “Chaldeans.”

[25:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that nation, oracle of the Lord, their iniquity even upon the land of the Chaldeans and I will make it everlasting ruins.” The sentence has been restructured to avoid ambiguity and to conform the style more to contemporary English.

[25:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

[29:10]  ⁷ sn See the study note on Jer 25:11 for the reckoning of the seventy years.

[29:10]  ⁸ tn See the translator’s note on Jer 27:22 for this term.

[29:10]  ⁹ tn Verse 10 is all one long sentence in the Hebrew original: “According to the fullness of Babylon seventy years I will take thought of you and I will establish my gracious word to you by bringing you back to this place.” The sentence has been broken up to conform better to contemporary English style.

[29:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “this place.” The text has probably been influenced by the parallel passage in 27:22. The term appears fifteen times in Jeremiah and is invariably a reference to Jerusalem or Judah.

[52:12]  ¹⁰ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”

[52:12]  ¹¹ sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:12]  ¹² tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[52:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “stood before.”

[52:31]  ¹³ sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

[52:31]  ¹⁴ sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:31]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”