Footnotes

1. 2 Kings 25:27 sn The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”
2. 2 Kings 25:27 sn The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.
3. 2 Kings 25:27 tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”
4. 2 Kings 25:27 tn The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.
5. 2 Kings 25:28 tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of.”
6. 2 Kings 25:29 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7. 2 Kings 25:30 tc The words “until the day he died” do not appear in the MT, but they are included in the parallel passage in Jer 52:34. Probably they have been accidentally omitted by homoioteleuton. A scribe’s eye jumped from the final vav (ו) on בְּיוֹמוֹ (b^eyomo), “in his day,” to the final vav (ו) on מוֹתוֹ (moto), “his death,” leaving out the intervening words.