Jeremiah 52:31-34

Jehoiachin in Exile

52:31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison. 52:32 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 52:33 Jehoiachin 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.


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

sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”

tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of

tn The subject is unstated in the Hebrew text, but Jehoiachin is clearly the subject of the following verb.