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2 Kings 25:27-29
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Jehoiachin in Babylon

27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh[a] day of the twelfth month,[b] King Evil Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned[c] King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him[d] from prison. 28 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than[e] the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 29 Jehoiachin[f] took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

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  1. 2 Kings 25:27 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
  2. 2 Kings 25:27 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.
  3. 2 Kings 25:27 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”
  4. 2 Kings 25:27 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.
  5. 2 Kings 25:28 tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of.”
  6. 2 Kings 25:29 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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