In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
These are not two different things, but the Prophet explains and confirms the same sentiments by a change of phrase, and says that the vessels which Nebuchadnezzar had brought into the land of Shinar were laid up in the house of the treasury.
Nebuchadnezzar seized Jerusalem, took whom he pleased, and left Jehoiakim tributary, for a time. Mark how short-lived are the kingdoms of earth; Daniel lived to see this empire rise, reign, and fall within his own lifetime. The righteous who watch them take root shall see their ruin.
AI summary
Commenting on Daniel 1:1-7
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah,.... At the close of it, and at the beginning of the fourth, which was the first of Nebuchadnezzar, Jer 25:1. Jerusalem seems to have been taken twice in his time, and two captivities in it: the first was in the third or fourth year of his reign; when humbling himself, he was restored...