Jeremiah 52:22

52:22 The bronze top of one pillar was about seven and one-half feet ¹  high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate-shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its pomegranate-shaped ornaments was like it.

Jeremiah 52:30-31

52:30 in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, ²  Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, carried into exile 745 Judeans. In all 4,600 people went into exile.

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.

[52:22]  ¹ tn Heb “five cubits.” A “cubit” was a unit of measure, approximately equivalent to a foot and a half.

[52:30]  ² sn This would be 581 b.c.

[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.”