Jeremiah 52:30-34

52:30 in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, ¹  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 ²  day of the twelfth month, ³  Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ⁴  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison. 52:32 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than ⁵  the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 52:33 Jehoiachin ⁶  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.

[52:30]  ¹ sn This would be 581 b.c.

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

[52:31]  ³ sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

[52:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of

[52:33]  ⁶ tn The subject is unstated in the Hebrew text, but Jehoiachin is clearly the subject of the following verb.