Jeremiah 25:3

25:3 “For the last twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was ruling in Judah ¹  until now, the Lord has been speaking to me. I told you over and over again ²  what he said. ³  But you would not listen.

Jeremiah 52:30-31

52:30 in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, ⁴  Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, carried into exile 745 Judeans. In all 4,600 people went into exile.

Jehoiachin in Exile

52:31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth ⁵  day of the twelfth month, ⁶  Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁷  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

[25:3]  ¹ 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]  ² tn For the idiom involved here see the notes at 7:13 and 11:7.

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

[52:30]  ⁴ sn This would be 581 b.c.

[52:31]  ⁷ sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

[52:31]  ⁸ sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:31]  ⁹ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”