2 Kings 25:17

25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet ¹  high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet ²  high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

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.

[25:17]  ¹ tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

[25:17]  ² tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”

[25:27]  ³ sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

[25:27]  ⁴ sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[25:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[25:27]  ⁶ tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.