Jeremiah 52:4

52:4 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it. ¹  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. ² 

Jeremiah 52:12

52:12 On the tenth ³  day of the fifth month, ⁴  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ⁵  who served ⁶  the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.

[52:4]  ¹ tn Or “against.”

[52:4]  ² sn 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]  ³ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”

[52:12]  ⁴ sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:12]  ⁵ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[52:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “stood before.”