Jeremiah 39:2

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39:2 It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year.¹ On that day they broke through the city walls.

Jeremiah 52:6

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52:6 By the ninth day of the fourth month² the famine in the city was so severe the residents³ had no food.

Jeremiah 52:4

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52:4 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it.⁴ They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year that Zedekiah ruled over Judah.⁵

Jeremiah 52:12

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52:12 On the tenth⁶ day of the fifth month,⁷ in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard⁸ who served⁹ the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 52:31

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Jehoiachin in Exile

52:31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth¹⁰ day of the twelfth month,¹¹ Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned¹² King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

[39:2] ¹sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

[52:6] ²sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

[52:6] ³tn Heb “the people of the land.”

[52:4] ³tn Or “against.”

[52:4] ⁴sn This would have been January 15, 588 b.c. The reckoning is based on the calendar that begins the year in the spring (Nisan = March/April).

[52:12] ⁴tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”

[52:12] ⁵sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:12] ⁶tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[52:12] ⁷tn Heb “stood before.”

[52:31] ⁵sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

[52:31] ⁶sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:31] ⁷tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”