what is stated above was
probably the fact.

325 See Appendix I.

326 As vividly described, or predicted, by Nahum; see the writer's
"Twelve Prophets," vol. ii.; on the date see Appendix I.

327 II. Kings xxiv. 1-16. The chronology of the end of Jehoiakim's reign
is uncertain. Most have held that the three years of his tribute
were his last years, 600-598. But Winckler ("A.T. Untersuchungen,"
81 ff.) gives good reasons for preferring 605-3.

328 See above, pp. 22 ff. Our versions render the Hebrew correctly, but
the following emendations may be made from the Greek: Verse 1, for
_this word ... from the Lord_ read _the word of the Lord came unto
me_; 2, for _Israel_ read _Jerusalem_; 22, omit _in the ninth
month_, unnecessary after 9; 31, omit _their iniquity_, for _upon
them_ read _upon him_, and for _men_ read _land, of Judah_; 32, for
_Jeremiah took_ read _Baruch took_ and omit _and gave it to Baruch
the scribe the son of Neriah_, and also the words _king of Judah_
and _in the fire_.

329 xxxvi. 3.

330 xxxvi. 29; cp. xxv. 9 f.

331 xxxvi. 19, 24.

332 Such is the force of the Hebrew idiom in the last clause of xxxvi.
16; for the different attitude of the princes in 608 see pp. 170 ff.

333 The Hebrew text is accurately rendered by our English Versions; the
following are the principal points on which the Greek differs from
it: Verse 1, both Greek and Latin lack _that was the first year of
Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon_; in verse 2 Greek lacks _Jeremiah
the prophet_ and _all_, and in verse 3 _the word of the Lord hath
come to me_ and _but ye have not hearkened_. In verse 6 for _I will
do you no hurt_ Greek reads _to your hurt_. Again, Greek lacks in 7
_saith the Lord_, in 8 _of Hosts_, in 9 _saith the Lord and to
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon My servant_, and for _all the
families_ it reads _a family_; and in 11 lacks _this, a desolation,
these_ and _the king of Babylon_, substituting for the last two
_shall serve among the nations_.

334 E.g. the preposition _to_ before _Nebuchadrezzar_ in verse 9 which
does not construe.

335 xxv. 1-14 has been denied to Jeremiah by Schwally ("Z.A.T.W.," viii.
177 ff.) and Duhm, but their arguments are answered by Giesebrecht
and Cornill _in loco_; see, too, Gillies, 195-8, 202