Thus says the LORD: See 2.2.

For Behold see 1.6.

I am giving this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon: Good News Translation understands the Chaldeans as the equivalent of Nebuchadnezzar’s army, and so renders “I am going to give this city over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia and his army.” If translators do not do something similar to this, it may seem to readers that the LORD is giving the city over to two different groups. Once again Good News Translation uses the more familiar “Nebuchadnezzar,” where the Hebrew text has the alternative Nebuchadrezzar. See 21.2.

The event described in these verses is recorded in chapter 52 as well as in 2Kgs 25.1-11; 2Chr 36.17-21.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Jeremiah. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2003. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .