Jeremiah 52:28-34

52:28 Here is the official record of the number of people ¹  Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year, ²  3,023 Jews; 52:29 in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, ³  832 people from Jerusalem; 52:30 in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, ⁴  Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, carried into exile 745 Judeans. In all 4,600 people went into exile.

Jehoiachin in Exile

52:31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth ⁵  day of the twelfth month, ⁶  Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁷  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison. 52:32 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than ⁸  the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 52:33 Jehoiachin ⁹  took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life. 52:34 He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.

¹ tn Heb “these are the people.”

² sn This would be 597 b.c.

³ sn This would be 586 b.c.

⁴ sn This would be 581 b.c.

⁵ sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

⁶ sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

⁷ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

⁸ tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of

⁹ tn The subject is unstated in the Hebrew text, but Jehoiachin is clearly the subject of the following verb.