2 Kings 25:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

On the seventh day of the month. Quest. How doth this agree with Jeremiah 52:12, where he is said to come thither on the tenth day? Answ. Either he came to Jerusalem on the seventh day, and burnt the temple on the tenth day; or this sacred writer speaks of the day of his departure from Riblah towards Jerusalem, and Jeremiah speaks of his coming to Jerusalem, which was about three days journey from Riblah.

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: