John Trapp on Jeremiah 25:1

CHAP. XXV.

Ver. 1. IN the fourth year of Jehoiakim] See on chap. 1.2. Above twenty years had Jeremy ſpent his worthy paines upon them: illi vero ne teruntio quidem meliores facti ſunt, but they were nothing the better: here therefore is their doom moſt deſervedly denounced.

That was the firſt year] This firſt year of Nebuchadnezzar, raigning alone after his fathers death, fell out part of Jehoiakims third and part of the fourth, Dan. 1.1.