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2 Kings 25:27

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Jehoiachin in Babylon

25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh 1  day of the twelfth month, 2  King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 3  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him 4  from prison.

1 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”

2 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

3 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

4 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.



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