Commentary for Megillah 22:8
ונבוכדנצר מנלן דארבעין וחמש שנין מלך דאמר מר גלו בשבע גלו בשמונה גלו בשמונה עשרה גלו בתשע עשרה
And how do we know that Nebuchadnezzar reigned forty-five years? As a Master has said: They went into exile in the seventh year and they went into exile in the eighth year; they went into exile in the eighteenth year and they went into exile in the nineteenth year:
Rashi on Megillah
They were exiled in the seventh; they were exiled in the eighth: It is one exile; and the verses are to be expounded: It is written, "in the eighth year of (the reign of Nebuchadnezzar)," about the exile of Yehoyachin at the end of the book of Kings (II Kings 24:12). Yet in the book of Jeremiah - at its end (Jeremiah 52:28) - [it is written], "whom [Nebuchadnezzar] exiled in the seventh year." Rather it was eight years for [the establishment of] the kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar, and seven for the conquest of Yehoyakim. As he conquered him [to be] beneath him in the second year of his reign. And he did not exile him, but he became his servant three years. And "eighteen" and "nineteen," were written about the exile of Tzidkiyahu at the end of the book of Jeremiah. And this is the destruction of Jerusalem, which was eleven years after the exile of Yehoyachin - as it is written (Jeremiah 52:5), "[until] the eleventh year of King Tzidkiyahu, etc." And what were the eighteen and nineteen? Eighteen from the conquest of Yehoyakim, and nineteen from the [establishment of] the kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar.
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