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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 25:1 - 25:1
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Jer 25:1-38. Prophecy of the seventy years’ captivity; and after that the destruction of Babylon, and of all the nations that oppressed the Jews.
fourth year of Jehoiakim - called the third year in Dan 1:1. But probably Jehoiakim was set on the throne by Pharaoh-necho on his return from Carchemish about July, whereas Nebuchadnezzar mounted the throne January 21, 604 b.c.; so that Nebuchadnezzar’s first year was partly the third, partly the fourth, of Jehoiakim’s. Here first Jeremiah gives specific dates. Nebuchadnezzar had previously entered Judea in the reign of his father Nabopolassar.