Jeremiah 7:25
7:25 From the time your ancestors departed the land of Egypt until now, 1 I sent my servants the prophets to you again and again, 2 day after day. 3
Jeremiah 11:7
11:7 For I solemnly warned your ancestors to obey me. 4 I warned them again and again, 5 ever since I delivered them out of Egypt until this very day.
Jeremiah 24:10
24:10 I will bring war, starvation, and disease 6 on them until they are completely destroyed from the land I gave them and their ancestors.’” 7
Jeremiah 30:24
30:24 The anger of the Lord will not turn back
until he has fully carried out his intended purposes.
In days to come you will come to understand this. 8
Jeremiah 38:28
38:28 So Jeremiah remained confined 9 in the courtyard of the guardhouse until the day Jerusalem 10 was captured.The Fall of Jerusalem and Its Aftermath
The following events occurred when Jerusalem 11 was captured. 12
Jeremiah 39:2
39:2 It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year. 13 On that day they broke through the city walls.
Jeremiah 52:34
52:34 He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.
1 tn Heb “from the day your ancestors…until this very day.” However, “day” here is idiomatic for “the present time.”
2 tn On the Hebrew idiom see the note at 7:13.
3 tc There is some textual debate about the legitimacy of this expression here. The text reads merely “day” (יוֹם, yom). BHS suggests the word is to be deleted as a dittography of the plural ending of the preceding word. The word is in the Greek and Latin, and the Syriac represents the typical idiom “day after day” as though the noun were repeated. Either יוֹם has dropped out by haplography or a ם (mem) has been left out, i.e., reading יוֹמָם (yomam, “daily”).
4 tn Heb “warned them…saying, ‘Obey me.’” However, it allows the long sentence to be broken up easier if the indirect quote is used.
5 tn For the explanation for this rendering see the note on 7:13.
6 sn See Jer 14:12 and the study note there.
7 tn Heb “fathers.”
8 sn Jer 30:23-24 are almost a verbatim repetition of 23:19-20. There the verses were addressed to the people of Jerusalem as a warning that the false prophets had no intimate awareness of the Lord’s plans which were plans of destruction for wicked Israel not plans of peace and prosperity. Here they function as further assurance that the Lord will judge the wicked nations oppressing them when he reverses their fortunes and restores them once again to the land as his special people (cf. vv. 18-22).
9 tn Heb “And Jeremiah stayed/remained in the courtyard of the guardhouse…” The translation once again intends to reflect the situation. Jeremiah had a secret meeting with the king at the third entrance to the temple (v. 14). He was returned to the courtyard of the guardhouse (cf. v. 13) after the conversation with the king where the officials came to question him (v. 27). He was not sent back to the dungeon in Jonathan’s house as he feared, but was left confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse.
10 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
11 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
12 tc The precise meaning of this line and its relation to the context are somewhat uncertain. This line is missing from the Greek and Syriac versions and from a few Hebrew mss. Some English versions and commentaries omit it as a double writing of the final words of the preceding line (see, e.g., REB; W. L. Holladay, Jeremiah [Hermeneia], 2:268). Others see it as misplaced from the beginning of 39:3 (see, e.g., NRSV, TEV, J. Bright, Jeremiah [AB], 245). The clause probably does belong syntactically with 39:3 (i.e., כַּאֲשֶׁר [ka’asher] introduces a temporal clause which is resumed by the vav consecutive on וַיָּבֹאוּ (vayyavo’u; see BDB 455 s.v. כַּאֲשֶׁר 3), but it should not be moved there because there is no textual evidence for doing so. The intervening verses are to be interpreted as parenthetical, giving the background for the events that follow (see, e.g., the translation in D. Barthélemy, ed., Preliminary and Interim Report on the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project, 4:280). The chapter is not so much concerned with describing how Jerusalem fell as it is with contrasting the fate of Zedekiah who disregarded the word of the Lord with the fate of Jeremiah and that of Jeremiah’s benefactor Ebed Melech. The best way to treat the line without actually moving it before 39:3a is to treat it as a heading as has been done here.
13 sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months.