52:12 On the tenth 1 day of the fifth month, 2 in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard 3 who served 4 the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.
[52:12] 1 tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”
[52:12] 2 sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.
[52:12] 3 tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.
[52:12] 4 tn Heb “stood before.”
