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 25:3

25:3 “For the last twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was ruling in Judah ⁴  until now, the Lord has been speaking to me. I told you over and over again ⁵  what he said. ⁶  But you would not listen.

Jeremiah 52:12

52:12 On the tenth ⁷  day of the fifth month, ⁸  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ⁹  who served ¹⁰  the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.

[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.”

[25:3]  ⁴ sn The year referred to would be 627 b.c. The same year is referred to in 1:2 in reference to his call to be a prophet.

[25:3]  ⁵ tn For the idiom involved here see the notes at 7:13 and 11:7.

[25:3]  ⁶ tn The words “what he said” are not in the text but are implicit. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[52:12]  ⁷ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”

[52:12]  ⁸ sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:12]  ⁹ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[52:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “stood before.”