seventh day. Jeremiah 52:12 says tenth day. He may have set fire to it on the seventh day, and it burnt until the tenth.
captain of the guard. chief of the royal executioners.
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2 Kings 25:8
8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captainb of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: