When the year was expired, Heb. at the return of the year, i.e. at the beginning of the next year, according to the sacred account of the Hebrews, at the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, as is elsewhere said, when Nebuchadnezzar, among others, went forth to settle and enlarge his conquests. Zedekiah his brother; largely so called, for this was his uncle, or his father's brother, as he is called, 2 Kings 24:17, being the son of Josiah. See 1 Chronicles 3:15 Jeremiah 1:3.
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2 Chronicles 36:10
10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.