When did Nebuchadnezzar besiege Jerusalem?

Jeremiah 25:1, "The word came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon."

Daniel 1:1, "In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it."

According to Daniel, Nubchadnezzar king of Babylon besieged Jerusalem in the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, however, according to Jeremiah, this event was not prophesied until the fourth year of Jehoiakim's reign, which was the first year Nubchadnezzar became king.


        "Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." (Ecclesiastes 7:3-4, KJV)
        "Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 8:15, KJV)

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