2 Kings 25:8

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Jerusalem

25:8 On the seventh14 day of the fifth month,15 in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard16 who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.17

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14	tn The parallel account in Jer 52:12 has “tenth.”
15	sn The seventh day of the month would have been August 14, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.
16	tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371. s.v. טַבָּח 2, and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.
17	map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.