2Ki 25:27 | NETfull | STEP | In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin in Babylon

27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh ^{▼▼ The parallel account in Jer 52:31 has “twenty-fifth.”} day of the twelfth month, ^{▼▼ The twenty-seventh day would be March 22, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.} King Evil-Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ^{▼▼ Heb “lifted up the head of.”} King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him ^{▼▼ The words “released him” are supplied in the translation on the basis of Jer 52:31.} from prison.