Jeremiah 52:28

52:28 Here is the official record of the number of people ¹  Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year, ²  3,023 Jews;

Jeremiah 43:9

43:9 “Take some large stones ³  and bury them in the mortar of the clay pavement ⁴  at the entrance of Pharaoh’s residence ⁵  here in Tahpanhes. Do it while the people of Judah present there are watching. ⁶ 

Jeremiah 52:30

52:30 in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, ⁷  Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, carried into exile 745 Judeans. In all 4,600 people went into exile.

[52:28]  ¹ tn Heb “these are the people.”

[52:28]  ² sn This would be 597 b.c.

[43:9]  ³ tn Heb “Take some large stones in your hands.”

[43:9]  ⁴ tn The meaning of the expression “mortar of the clay pavement” is uncertain. The noun translated “mortar” occurs only here and the etymology is debated. Both BDB 572 s.v. מֶלֶט and KBL 529 s.v. מֶלֶט give the meaning “mortar.” The noun translated “clay pavement” is elsewhere used of a “brick mold.” Here BDB 527 s.v. מַלְבֵּן 2 gives “quadrangle” and KBL 527 s.v. מַלְבֵּן 2 gives “terrace of bricks.” HALOT 558 s.v. מֶלֶט and מַלְבֵּן 2 give “loamy soil” for both words, seeing the second noun as a dittography or gloss of the first (see also note c in BHS).

[43:9]  ⁵ sn All the commentaries point out that this was not Pharaoh’s (main) palace but a governor’s residence or other government building that Pharaoh occupied when he was in Tahpanhes.

[43:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “in Tahpanhes in the eyes of the men of Judah.”

[52:30]  ⁵ sn This would be 581 b.c.