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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.

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Footnotes

  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.