2 Raja-raja 25:3

25:3 By the ninth day of the fourth month ¹  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ²  had no food.

2 Raja-raja 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh 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 the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. ⁶ 

2 Raja-raja 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ⁷  day of the twelfth month, ⁸  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁹  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ¹⁰  from prison.

[25:3]  ¹ tn The MT has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the MT of 2 Kgs 25:3.

[25:3]  sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.

[25:3]  ² tn Heb “the people of the land.”

[25:8]  ³ tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”

[25:8]  ⁴ sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:8]  ⁵ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[25:8]  ⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[25:27]  ⁷ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

[25:27]  ⁸ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[25:27]  ¹⁰ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.