Jeremiah 52:26-34

52:26 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 52:27 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed ¹  at Riblah in the territory of Hamath.

So Judah was taken into exile away from its land. 52:28 Here is the official record of the number of people ²  Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year, ³  3,023 Jews; 52:29 in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, ⁴  832 people from Jerusalem; 52:30 in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, ⁵  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 ⁶  day of the twelfth month, ⁷  Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁸  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison. 52:32 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than ⁹  the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 52:33 Jehoiachin ¹⁰  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.

[52:27]  ¹ tn Heb “struck them down and killed them.”

[52:28]  ² tn Heb “these are the people.”

[52:28]  ³ sn This would be 597 b.c.

[52:29]  ⁴ sn This would be 586 b.c.

[52:30]  ⁵ sn This would be 581 b.c.

[52:31]  ⁶ sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

[52:31]  ⁷ sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:31]  ⁸ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[52:32]  ⁹ tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of

[52:33]  ¹⁰ tn The subject is unstated in the Hebrew text, but Jehoiachin is clearly the subject of the following verb.