[3] The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text (Hebrew), and Vulgate (Latin), in some places differs from that in Septuagint (LXX, the Greek Bible used in the Eastern Orthodox Church and others) according to Rahlfs or Brenton.

[4] The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study (CATSS) based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta (1935), differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition (1957) in Göttingen LXX.

"[6] Huey maintains that it is not "misplaced by accident or through a redactor's ignorance of the chronology of events", but perhaps to "emphasis that Judah's disobedience ... had begun much earlier than the closing years of Zedekiah's reign.

"[1] This section provides an illustration contrasting the covenant infidelity of Israel against God as the Father of the nation (Jeremiah 34; 35:12–17) and the fidelity of the Rechabites to the commandments of their progenitor.

[7] When Egyptians decided to fight the Babylonians in Palestine, Nebuchadnezzar temporarily lifted the siege on Jerusalem, sending a raiding troops to attack other areas in Judah instead (660-598 SM; cf.

verse 11; Jeremiah 44:5; 2 Kings 24:1–2), which drove the Rechabites, among the people living in the countryside, to Jerusalem (or other fortified cities) for safety during that period.

[1][7][8] Calmet suggests that "it was not till the latter end of Jehoiakim’s reign that the Rechabites were driven into the city".