▼tn The MT has simply “of the month,” but the parallel passage in Jer 52:6 has “fourth month,” and this is followed by almost all English translations. The word “fourth,” however, is not actually present in the MT of 2 Kgs 25:3.

▼sn According to modern reckoning that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. So the attack against Jerusalem lasted approximately thirty months. The siege was briefly interrupted after about a year due to the arrival Egyptian forces (Eze 17:15-17; Jer 37:5-11), an inadequate force sent by Pharaoh Hophra. The final siege leading to starvation conditions thus lasted about fifteen to eighteen months.

▼tn Heb “the people of the land.”