The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that [was] the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
Ver. 1. In the fourth year of Jehoiakim.] See on Jeremiah 1:2. Above twenty years had Jeremiah spent his worthy pains upon them, illi vero ne teruntio quidem meliores facti sunt, but they were nothing the better; here, therefore, is their doom most deservedly denounced.
That was the first year.] This first year of Nebuchadnezzar, reigning alone after his father's death, fell out part of Jehoiakim's third, and part of the fourth. Dan 1:1