*2 Kgs 25:1 Hebrew on the tenth day of the tenth month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. A number of events in 2 Kings can be cross-checked with dates in surviving Babylonian records and related accurately to our modern calendar. This day was January 15, 588 B.C.
*2 Kgs 25:3 Hebrew By the ninth day of the [fourth] month [in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign] (compare Jer 39:2; 52:6 and the notes there). This day was July 18, 586 B.C.; also see note on 25:1.
*2 Kgs 25:4 Or the Chaldeans; also in 25:13, 25, 26.
*2 Kgs 25:4 As in Greek version (see also Jer 39:4; 52:7); Hebrew lacks escaped.
*2 Kgs 25:4 Hebrew the Arabah.
*2 Kgs 25:5 Or Chaldean; also in 25:10, 24.
*2 Kgs 25:8 Hebrew On the seventh day of the fifth month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This day was August 14, 586 B.C.; also see note on 25:1.
*2 Kgs 25:9 Or destroyed the houses of all the important people.
*2 Kgs 25:17 Hebrew 18 cubits [8.3 meters].
*2 Kgs 25:17 As in parallel texts at 1 Kgs 7:16, 2 Chr 3:15, and Jer 52:22, all of which read 5 cubits [2.3 meters]; Hebrew reads 3 cubits, which is 4.5 feet or 1.4 meters.
*2 Kgs 25:23 As in parallel text at Jer 40:8; Hebrew reads Jaazaniah, a variant spelling of Jezaniah.
*2 Kgs 25:25 Hebrew in the seventh month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This month occurred within the months of October and November 586 B.C.; also see note on 25:1.
*2 Kgs 25:27 Hebrew He raised the head of.
*2 Kgs 25:27 As in some Hebrew manuscripts and Greek and Syriac versions (see also Jer 52:31); Masoretic Text lacks released him.
*2 Kgs 25:27 Hebrew on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This day was April 2, 561 B.C.; also see note on 25:1.