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The Lord’s messages continued throughout the reign of King Jehoiakim, Josiah’s son, until the eleventh year of the reign of King Zedekiah, another of Josiah’s sons. In August[a] of that eleventh year the people of Jerusalem were taken away as captives.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:3 Hebrew In the fifth month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. A number of events in Jeremiah can be cross-checked with dates in surviving Babylonian records and related accurately to our modern calendar. The fifth month in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign occurred within the months of August and September 586 B.c. Also see 52:12 and the note there.

and through the reign of Jehoiakim(A) son of Josiah king of Judah, down to the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah(B) son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.(C)

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