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Jeremiah 25:1

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Jeremiah 25:1

Verse 1 of 38

Scripture focus

The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that [was] the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;

Jeremiah 25:1 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jeremiah 25:1

Theological / Devotional

Fourth year of Jehoiakim. The message of ch. 25 is definitely placed in the year immediately following the taking of the first Jewish captives to Babylon (see on Dan. 1:1). This message given in the 4th year of Jehoiakim, either 605 or 604 B.C., would seem to have preceded the prophet’s parable of the potter’s vessel (see Jer. 18; 19; PK 431).

First year. Nebuchadnezzar succeeded to his father’s throne in the summer of 605 B.C., which would be his accession year. His year 1 would be the next full calendar year, beginning, by Jewish reckoning, in the fall of 605, and in the Babylonian calendar in the spring of 604 (see pp. 505, 755, 756; also Vol. II, pp. 138, 160, 161; Vol. III, pp. 91, 92).

Nebuchadrezzar. See on ch. 21:2.

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