33:14 After this Manasseh 12 built up the outer wall of the City of David 13 on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.
52:31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth 14 day of the twelfth month, 15 Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 16 King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison. 52:32 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than 17 the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 52:33 Jehoiachin 18 took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life. 52:34 He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.
2:21 He changes times and seasons,
deposing some kings
and establishing others. 19
He gives wisdom to the wise;
he imparts knowledge to those with understanding; 20
1 tn Heb “and they seized him with hooks.”
2 tn Or “distress.”
3 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “appeased the face of the
5 tn Or “greatly.”
6 tn Heb “fathers.”
7 tn Heb “him”; the referent (the
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
9 tn Heb “was entreated by him,” or “allowed himself to be entreated by him.”
10 tn Heb “heard.”
11 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
12 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
13 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
14 sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”
15 sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561
16 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”
17 tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of
18 tn The subject is unstated in the Hebrew text, but Jehoiachin is clearly the subject of the following verb.
19 tn Aram “kings.”
20 tn Aram “the knowers of understanding.”