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 ¹  day of the twelfth month, ²  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ³  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ⁴  from prison.

Jeremiah 52:28

52:28 Here is the official record of the number of people ⁵  Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year, ⁶  3,023 Jews;

Jeremiah 52:31

Jehoiachin in Exile

52:31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth ⁷  day of the twelfth month, ⁸  Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁹  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

¹ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

² sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

³ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

⁴ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.

⁵ tn Heb “these are the people.”

⁶ sn This would be 597 b.c.

⁷ sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

⁸ sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

⁹ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”