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2 Kings 25:26-28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Kings 25:26-28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
26 Then all the people, high and low,[a] and the captains of the forces set out and went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.(A)
Jehoiachin Released from Prison
27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison;(B) 28 he spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the other seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
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- 25.26 Or young and old
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