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 52:1

The Fall of Jerusalem

52:1 ³ Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem ⁴  for eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal ⁵  daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

Jeremiah 25:3

25:3 “For the last twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was ruling in Judah ⁶  until now, the Lord has been speaking to me. I told you over and over again ⁷  what he said. ⁸  But you would not listen.

Jeremiah 52:30-31

52:30 in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, ⁹  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 ¹⁰  day of the twelfth month, ¹¹  Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ¹²  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

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

[52:28]  ² sn This would be 597 b.c.

[52:1]  ³ sn This final chapter does not mention Jeremiah, but its description of the downfall of Jerusalem and exile of the people validates the prophet’s ministry.

[52:1]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[52:1]  ⁵ tn Some textual witnesses support the Kethib (consonantal text) in reading “Hamital.”

[25:3]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn For the idiom involved here see the notes at 7:13 and 11:7.

[25:3]  ⁷ tn The words “what he said” are not in the text but are implicit. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[52:30]  ⁷ sn This would be 581 b.c.

[52:31]  ⁹ sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

[52:31]  ¹⁰ sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:31]  ¹¹ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”