2 Kings · around about 561 BC
Jehoiachin Released
Jehoiachin Released is recorded in 2 Kings and falls around about 561 BC. Below is what happened, where it fits, and the full text.
about 561 BCmedium
What happened
The Babylonian king Evil-Merodach frees Jehoiachin from prison and seats him at his table.
Where it fits on the timeline
Evil-Merodach releases Jehoiachin after Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, before Babylon falls and Cyrus sends the exiles home (2 Kings 25:27-30; Daniel 5:1-31; Ezra 1:1-11; 2 Kings 25:1-21).
The passage
2 Kings 25:27-30
In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, released Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison, and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life; and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him from the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.
Jeremiah 52:31-34
In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison. He spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life. For his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
Scripture references
2 Kings 25:27-30; Jeremiah 52:31-34
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