Discovery BoxJeremiah 28:16 
Context28:16 So the Lord says, ‘I will most assuredly remove 1 you from the face of the earth. You will die this very year because you have counseled rebellion against the Lord.’” 2
Jeremiah 39:1
Context39:1 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and laid siege to it. The siege began in the tenth month of the ninth year that Zedekiah ruled over Judah. 3
Jeremiah 45:1
Context45:1 The prophet Jeremiah spoke to Baruch son of Neriah while he was writing down in a scroll the words that Jeremiah spoke to him. 4 This happened in the fourth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was ruling over Judah. 5
Jeremiah 51:59
Context51:59 This is the order Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went to King Zedekiah of Judah in Babylon during the fourth year of his reign. 6 (Seraiah was a quartermaster.) 7
Jeremiah 52:12
Context52:12 On the tenth 8 day of the fifth month, 9 in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard 10 who served 11 the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 52:30
Context52:30 in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, 12 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, carried into exile 745 Judeans. In all 4,600 people went into exile.
1 sn There is a play on words here in Hebrew between “did not send you” and “will…remove you.” The two verbs are from the same root word in Hebrew. The first is the simple active and the second is the intensive.
2 sn In giving people false assurances of restoration when the
3 sn 2 Kgs 25:1 and Jer 52:4 give the more precise date of the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year which would have been Jan 15, 588
4 sn It is unclear whether this refers to the first scroll (36:4) or the second (36:32). Perhaps from the reactions of Baruch this refers to the second scroll which was written after he had seen how the leaders had responded to the first (36:19). Baruch was from a well-placed family; his grandfather, Mahseiah (32:12) had been governor of Jerusalem under Josiah (2 Chr 34:8) and his brother was a high-ranking official in Zedekiah’s court (Jer 51:59). He himself appears to have had some personal aspirations that he could see were being or going to be jeopardized (v. 5). The passage is both a rebuke to Baruch and an encouragement that his life will be spared wherever he goes. This latter promise is perhaps the reason that the passage is placed where it is, i.e., after the seemingly universal threat of destruction of all who have gone to Egypt in Jer 44.
5 tn Heb “[This is] the word/message which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll from the mouth of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, saying.”
6 sn This would be 582
7 tn Heb “an officer of rest.”
8 tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”
9 sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586
10 tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.
11 tn Heb “stood before.”
12 sn This would be 581
