25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh 6 day of the twelfth month, 7 King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 8 King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him 9 from prison.
1 tn Traditionally “the
2 tn Heb “before whom I stand.”
3 tn Heb “if I did not lift up the face of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah.”
4 tn Heb “I would not look at you or see you.”
5 tn Heb “said to.”
9 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
10 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561
11 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”
12 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.