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2 Kings 25:27-29
New Catholic Bible
2 Kings 25:27-29
New Catholic Bible
27 Jehoiachin’s Release from Prison.[a] In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, Evil-merodach who had become king that year, released Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, from prison. 28 He spoke kindly to him and he set him upon his throne which was above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon. 29 He changed his prison clothes, and he ate his meals with him for the rest of his life.
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- 2 Kings 25:27 Evil-merodach succeeds his father, Nebuchadnezzar, in 561 B.C. and being a more humane man, takes pity on Jehoiachin, who has been in prison since 597 B.C. His treatment of the vassal king has been brilliantly confirmed by discoveries in 1940 that mention “Jaukinu, king of the land of Judah” as among those who receive supplies from the king’s treasury.
