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Jeremiah 52:12

in Jeremiah 52

On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem.

KJV

Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar–adan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,

This verse in Jeremiah 52

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month

on Jeremiah 52:12-16

The temple's burning is dated to the fifth month, tenth day, matching 2 Kings 25:8-9, the date the synagogue still keeps as the ninth of Av, mourning this destruction and the second temple's together. Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, burns the house of the Lord, the king's house, and every great house in the city, then breaks down the walls of Jerusalem entirely, the three burnings and the wall named in one sweep. The poor of the land are deliberately left behind for vinedressers and husbandmen (v16), so that the land is not stripped of every hand to work it, the same detail 39:10 has already given.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

But the sums here are very small, in comparison with what we find expressed concerning the former ( 2 Kings xxiv. 14, 16 ), when there were 18,000 carried captive, whereas here they are said to be 3023; they are also small in comparison with what we may reasonably suppose concerning the latter; for, when all the residue of the people were carried away (

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Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

tenth day--But in 2Ki 25:8, it is said "the seventh day." Nebuzara-dan started from Riblah on the "seventh" day and arrived in Jerusalem on the "tenth" day. Seeming discrepancies, when cleared up, confirm the genuineness of Scripture; for they show there was no collusion between the writers; as in all God's works there is latent harmony under outward varieties.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Now in the fifth month - Answering nearly to our August.

The words behind it

22 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּבַחֹ֤דֶשׁand in the month

    uvachodeshH2320284 times

  • הַֽחֲמִישִׁי֙<the> fifth

    hachamishiH254945 times

  • בֶּעָשׂ֣וֹרon the ten

    beasorH6218

  • לַחֹ֔דֶשׁof the month

    lachodeshH2320284 times

  • הִ֗יאit

    hi'H19311879 times

  • שְׁנַת֙[was] year

    shenatH8141877 times

  • תְּשַֽׁע־nine-

    tesha'-H867258 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֣הteen

    ʾesrehH6240338 times

  • שָׁנָ֔הyear

    shanahH8141877 times

  • לַמֶּ֖לֶךְof the king

    lamelekhH44282525 times

  • נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֣רNebuchadnezzar

    nevukhadretzarH501960 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H44282525 times

  • בָּבֶ֑לBabylon

    bavelH894262 times

  • בָּ֗אhe came

    ba'H9352568 times

  • נְבֽוּזַרְאֲדָן֙Nebuzaradan

    nevuzaradanH501816 times

  • רַב־[the] chief of

    rav-H7227454 times

  • טַבָּחִ֔ים[the] bodyguards

    tabachimH287632 times

  • עָמַ֛דhe stood

    ʾamadH5975521 times

  • לִפְנֵ֥י<to> before

    lifneiH64402123 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H44282525 times

  • בָּבֶ֖לBabylon

    bavelH894262 times

  • בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃in Jerusalem

    birushalimH3389643 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Kings 24:12

    Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 25:27

      On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Jeremiah 24:1

      After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to…

  • Through

    Zechariah 8:19

    “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of…

    it leads to

    • Zechariah 8:16

      These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,

    • Jeremiah 39:2

      And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.

    • Zechariah 7:3

      by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”

    • Zechariah 7:5

      “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

    • 2 Kings 25:25

      In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 39:9

    Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 40:1

      This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem…

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.