52:31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth 1 day of the twelfth month, 2 Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned 3 King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.
1 sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”
2 sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561
3 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”