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Jehoiachin Is Set Free

(2 Kings 25.27-30)

31 Jehoiachin was a prisoner in Babylon for 37 years. Then Evil Merodach[a] became king of Babylonia, and in the first year of his rule, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month,[b] he let Jehoiachin out of prison. 32 Evil Merodach was kind to Jehoiachin and honored him more than any of the other kings held prisoner there. 33 Jehoiachin was allowed to wear regular clothes instead of a prison uniform, and he even ate at the king's table every day.

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Footnotes

  1. 52.31 Evil Merodach: The son of Nebuchadnezzar who ruled Babylonia from 562–560 b.c.
  2. 52.31 twelfth month: Adar, the twelfth month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-February to mid-March.

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