2 Kings 25:25-27
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25 But in the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men; they struck down Gedaliah so that he died, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.(A) 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.(B)
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;(C)
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- 25.26 Or young and old
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