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Jehoiachin Is Set Free

(Jeremiah 52.31-34)

27 Jehoiachin was a prisoner in Babylon for 37 years. Then Evil-Merodach became king of Babylonia,[a] and in the first year of his rule, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month,[b] he let Jehoiachin out of prison.

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Footnotes

  1. 25.27 Evil-Merodach … Babylonia: The son of Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled Babylonia from 562 to 560 b.c.
  2. 25.27 twelfth month: Adar, the twelfth month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-February to mid-March.

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