2 Kings 25:25-27 Contemporary English Version (CEV)

²⁵ Ishmael^[a] was from the royal family. And about two months after Gedaliah began his rule,^[b] Ishmael and ten other men went to Mizpah. They killed Gedaliah and his officials, including those from Judah and those from Babylonia. ²⁶ After that, the army officers and all the people in Mizpah, whether important or not, were afraid of what the Babylonians might do. So they left Judah and went to Egypt.

Jehoiachin Is Set Free

²⁷ Jehoiachin was a prisoner in Babylon for thirty-seven years. Then Evil-Merodach became king of Babylonia,^[c] and in the first year of his rule, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month,^[d] he let Jehoiachin out of prison.