2 Kings 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.

Ge 40:13,20; Pr 21:1; Jer 24:5,6; Jer 52:31-34

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.