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Jeremiah 52:31-33
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Jehoiachin in Exile

31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth[a] day of the twelfth month,[b] King Evil Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned[c] King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison. 32 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than[d] the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 33 Jehoiachin[e] took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.

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  1. Jeremiah 52:31 sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”
  2. Jeremiah 52:31 sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.
  3. Jeremiah 52:31 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”
  4. Jeremiah 52:32 tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of.”
  5. Jeremiah 52:33 tn The subject is unstated in the Hebrew text, but Jehoiachin is clearly the subject of the following verb.
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