Jeremiah 37:4

37:4 (Now Jeremiah had not yet been put in prison. ¹  So he was still free to come and go among the people as he pleased. ² 

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 ³  day of the twelfth month, ⁴  Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁵  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

[37:4]  ¹ sn This statement anticipates v. 15. Verses 3-4 are parenthetical to the narrative thread which is picked up in v. 5. They provide background information necessary for understanding the situation at the time the delegation comes to Jeremiah.

[37:4]  ² tn The words “as he pleased” are not in the text but are implicit in the idiom both in Hebrew and in English. They have been supplied in the translation for clarity and the sake of English idiom.

[52:31]  ³ sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

[52:31]  ⁴ sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”