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

Jeremiah 52:33

52:33 Jehoiachin ⁴  took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

¹ sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

² sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

³ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

⁴ tn The subject is unstated in the Hebrew text, but Jehoiachin is clearly the subject of the following verb.