2 Kings 4:23

4:23 He said, “Why do you want to go see him today? It is not the new moon ¹  or the Sabbath.” She said, “Everything’s fine.” ² 

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 ³  day of the twelfth month, ⁴  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁵  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ⁶  from prison.

¹ sn The new moon was a time of sacrifice and special feasts (Num 28:14; 1 Sam 20:5). Apparently it was a convenient time to visit a prophet. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 57.

² tn Heb “peace.”

³ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

⁴ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

⁵ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

⁶ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.