translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JER

label: NET study note

text: This final chapter does not mention Jeremiah, but its description of the downfall of Jerusalem and exile of the people validates the prophet’s ministry.


text: 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).


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


text: The king’s garden is mentioned again in Neh 3:15 in conjunction with the pool of Siloam and the stairs that go down from the city of David. This would have been in the southern part of the city near the Tyropean Valley which agrees with the reference to the “two walls” which were probably the walls on the eastern and western hills.


text: Heb “toward the Arabah.” The Arabah was the rift valley north and south of the Dead Sea. Here the intention was undoubtedly to escape across the Jordan to Moab or Ammon. It appears from 40:14; 41:15 that the Ammonites were known to harbor fugitives from the Babylonians.


text: Riblah was a strategic town on the Orontes River in Syria. It was at a crossing of the major roads between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Pharaoh Necho had earlier received Jehoahaz there and put him in chains ( 2 Kgs 23:33 ) prior to taking him captive to Egypt. Nebuchadnezzar had set up his base camp for conducting his campaigns against the Palestinian states there and was now sitting in judgment on prisoners brought to him.


text: The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.


text: For discussion of the items listed here, see the study notes at Jer 27:19 .


text: These shovels were used to clean the altar.


text: These trimming shears were used to trim the wicks of the lamps.


text: The censers held the embers used for the incense offerings.


text: These vessels were used for drink offerings.


text: See the note at Jer 35:4 .


text: This would be 597 b.c .


text: This would be 586 b.c .


text: This would be 581 b.c .


text: The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”


text: The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.