Jeremiah 52:30-32

Contemporary English Version

People of Judah Taken Prisoner

^28-30Here is a list of the number of the people of Judah that Nebuchadnezzar^[a] took to Babylonia as prisoners:

In his seventh year as king, he took 3,023 people.

In his eighteenth year as king, he took 832 from Jerusalem.

In his twenty-third year as king, his officer Nebuzaradan took 745 people.

So, Nebuchadnezzar took a total of 4,600 people from Judah to Babylonia.

Jehoiachin Is Set Free

(2 Kings 25.27-30)

³¹Jehoiachin was a prisoner in Babylon for 37 years. Then Evil Merodach^[b] became king of Babylonia, and in the first year of his rule, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month,^[c] he let Jehoiachin out of prison. ³²Evil Merodach was kind to Jehoiachin and honored him more than any of the other kings held prisoner there.

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Footnotes

52.28-30 Nebuchadnezzar: See the note at 21.2.
52.31 Evil Merodach: The son of Nebuchadnezzar who ruled Babylonia from 562–560 b.c.
52.31 twelfth month: Adar, the twelfth month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-February to mid-March.