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JEREMIAH CHAPTER 25
Their disobedience to the prophets reproved, Jer_25:1-7. The seventy years of captivity foretold, Jer_25:8-11; and after that the destruction of Babylon, Jer_25:12-14. By a cup of wine is fore shown the destruction of all nations, Jer_25:15-33. The howling of the shepherds, Jer_25:34-38.
The fourth year of Jehoiakim was seven years and odd months before Jeconiah or Jehoiachin his son was carried into captivity, as appears from 2Ki_23:36 24:8,15, and eighteen years before the taking of the city, and the more general captivity; which argueth that this prophecy is misplaced, and set after the former, whereas in order of time it was sixteen or seventeen years before it. This is said to be
the first year of Nebuchadrezzar (called by Ptolemy, Nabopolassar). It is said, Dan_1:1, that this Nebuchadrezzar came up in the third year of Jehoiakim; to which is answered, that the first year of Nebuchadrezzar’s reign must be understood of his absolute reign, which concurred partly with the third, partly with the fourth year of Jehoiakim; they say he was before a sharer in the kingly government with his father, but this was the first year that he had the name of king entirely given unto him.