Jeremiah 52:3-6
Context52:3 What follows is a record of what happened to Jerusalem and Judah because of the Lord’s anger when he drove them out of his sight. 1 Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 52:4 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it. 2 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. 3 52:5 The city remained under siege until Zedekiah’s eleventh year. 52:6 By the ninth day of the fourth month 4 the famine in the city was so severe the residents 5 had no food.
1 tn Heb “Surely (or “for”) because of the anger of the
2 tn Or “against.”
3 sn This would have been January 15, 588
4 sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586
5 tn Heb “the people of the land.”