Jeremiah 24:5-6

24:5 “I, the Lord, the God of Israel, say: ‘The exiles whom I sent away from here to the land of Babylon ¹  are like those good figs. I consider them to be good. 24:6 I will look after their welfare ²  and will restore them to this land. There I will build them up and will not tear them down. I will plant them firmly in the land ³  and will not uproot them. ⁴ 

Jeremiah 52:31-34

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.

[24:5]  ¹ tn Heb “the land of the Chaldeans.” See the study note on 21:4.

[24:6]  ² tn Heb “I will set my eyes upon them for good.” For the nuance of “good” see Jer 21:10; Amos 9:4 (in these cases the opposite of harm; see BDB 375 s.v. טוֹבָה 1).

[24:6]  ³ tn The words “There” and “firmly in the land” are not in the text but are implicit from the connection and the metaphor. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[24:6]  ⁴ sn For these terms see Jer 1:10.

[52:31]  ⁵ sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

[52:31]  ⁶ sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:31]  ⁷ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[52:32]  ⁸ tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of

[52:33]  ⁹ tn The subject is unstated in the Hebrew text, but Jehoiachin is clearly the subject of the following verb.