2 Kings 25:23

25:23 All of the officers of the Judahite army ¹  and their troops heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah to govern. So they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah. The officers who came were Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite.

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ²  day of the twelfth month, ³  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁴  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ⁵  from prison.

¹ tn Heb “of the army.” The word “Judahite” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

² sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

³ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

⁴ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

⁵ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.