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In the third year, &c. It was in the third year of Jehoiakim that Nebuchadnezzar set out from Babylon; and Daniel, writing there, speaks of the starting, not of the arrival at Jerusalem. See note on "came", below. In the fourth year Jehovah says by Jeremiah (Dan_25:9), "I will send". The date would be 497 B.C. and Daniel's sixteenth year, he being born probably in 513 B.C. (Josiah's eighteenth year).
came = went, set out, or proceeded. Hebrew. bo', which means to go or come, according to the context and the point of view. It is rendered "went" in Gen_7:9, Gen_7:16; Gen_15:17. Exo_5:1. Num_8:22; Num_14:24. Jdg_6:19; Jdg_18:18. 1Sa_17:12. 2Sa_2:24; 2Sa_12:16; 2Sa_17:25; 2Sa_20:3, 2Sa_20:8. 1Ch_2:21. Psa_66:12. Eze_36:20, Eze_36:21, Eze_36:22; Eze_41:3. It is translated "go", in the sense of proceed or set out, in Deu_4:1; Deu_6:18; Deu_8:1; Deu_11:8; Deu_12:26; Deu_22:13; Deu_26:3. Jos_23:12. Rth_3:4. 1Sa_25:5, &c. Jon_1:3, &c. It is rendered "entered " (of setting out) in 2Ch_27:2. Job_38:16, Job_38:22. Jer_9:21; Jer_14:18; Jer_17:25; Jer_22:4; Jer_34:10; Jer_37:16. Lam_1:10. Eze_44:2; Eze_46:2. Eze_11:40, Eze_11:41. Amo_5:5. Oba_1:11. Zec_5:4. Nebuchadnezzar did set out in Jehoiakim's third year, but was delayed by fighting the battle with Pharaoh-necho at Carchemish. In the next (the fourth) year (Jer_46:2), he carried out the object with which he set out. Compare 2Ki_24:1, and 2Ch_36:6, 2Ch_36:7.
Nebuchadnezzar. This name is so spelled (i.e. with "n" instead of "r") by Berosus (who wrote his history from the monuments, Cent. 3, B. C). Both spellings were in vogue. Ezekiel uses the "r"; and Jeremiah uses "r" before en. 27; and then eight times the "n" (Dan_27:6 where Nebuchadnezzar is once specially called Jehovah's appointed servant, 8, 20; Dan_28:3, Dan_28:11, Dan_28:14; Dan_29:1, Dan_29:3); and after that, always with "r" except twice (Dan_34:1; Dan_39:5). It is spelled with "n" in 2Ki_24:1, 2Ki_24:10, 2Ki_24:11; 2Ki_25:1, 2Ki_25:8, 2Ki_25:22; 1Ch_6:15. 2Ch_36:6, 2Ch_36:7, 2Ch_36:10, 2Ch_36:13. Ezr_1:7; Ezr_2:1. Neh_7:6. Est_2:6).