Jeremiah 27:1

Jeremiah received a message from the Lord toward the beginning of King Zedekiah’s reign. The Jews sometimes divided periods of time into halves: the beginning half and the end half. Thus the writer probably meant that this prophecy came in the first half of Zedekiah’s reign (cf. Jeremiah 28:1). [Note: E. Henderson, The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, p. 171.] The first verse of chapter 28 locates the time of this prophecy more exactly, namely, in the king’s fourth year (594 or 593 B.C.).