Discovery BoxJeremiah 52:27-34
Context52:27 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.
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
[52:29] 4 sn This would be 586
[52:30] 5 sn This would be 581
[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
[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.
