JEREMY XXXVI. from vers. 9. to end.
[World 3403] [Divvision 374] [Years of Captivity 2] [Iehoiakim 5] IN the fifth year of Jehoiakim, in the ninth month, Jehoiakim cuts in pieces and burns Jeremies Prophesie, a wickedness not to be paralleld: Let the Reader weigh whether Baruchs reading the Book in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, on the Fast day, vers. 6. and his reading it now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, at an extraordina∣ry Fast in the ninth month, be above the space of two months asun∣der. It is very well worth the pondering. I cannot but conclude affirmatively, and I believe upon very good ground; and this ob∣served and concluded doth help to count the seventy years captivity the more exactly: if it do not also teach us to begin the year from the time of the first captivity, from its antient date in Tisri, till Re∣demption altered the date, and brought it to Abib, which I believe Captivity hath now altered again. The preceding Chapter and this, and divers forward are Historical, and therefore they are laid toge∣ther after those that are more fully Prophetical: we shall observe the like in the Book of Daniel ere it be long.
[Divvision 375] [Years of Captivity 3] [Iehoiakim 6] There is no particular occurrence mentioned this sixth year of Je∣hoiakim.