24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 2 His mother 3 was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem.
25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh 4 day of the twelfth month, 5 King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 6 King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him 7 from prison.
1:9 The king 8 sent a captain and his fifty soldiers 9 to retrieve Elijah. 10 The captain 11 went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. 12 He told him, “Prophet, 13 the king says, ‘Come down!’”
1 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
2 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
3 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
4 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
5 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561
6 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”
7 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn Heb “officer of fifty and his fifty.”
10 tn Heb “to him.”
11 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the captain) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 sn The prophet Elijah’s position on the top of the hill symbolizes his superiority to the king and his messengers.
13 tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 10, 11, 12, 13).