2 Kings 24:6

24:6 He passed away ¹  and his son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.

2 Kings 24:8

Jehoiachin’s Reign over Judah

24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. ²  His mother ³  was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem.

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 ⁴  day of the twelfth month, ⁵  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁶  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ⁷  from prison.

2 Kings 25:2

25:2 The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

2 Kings 1:9

1:9 The king ⁸  sent a captain and his fifty soldiers ⁹  to retrieve Elijah. ¹⁰  The captain ¹¹  went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. ¹²  He told him, “Prophet, ¹³  the king says, ‘Come down!’”

[24:6]  ¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

[24:8]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[24:8]  ³ tn Heb “the name of his mother.”

[25:27]  ⁴ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

[25:27]  ⁵ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[25:27]  ⁷ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.

[1:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “officer of fifty and his fifty.”

[1:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to him.”

[1:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the captain) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:9]  ¹² sn The prophet Elijah’s position on the top of the hill symbolizes his superiority to the king and his messengers.

[1:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “man of God” (also in vv. 10, 11, 12, 13).