562 BC · Exile
Jehoiachin lifted from prison in Babylon
In the thirty-seventh year of his exile, Evil-merodach spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his seat above the kings with him in Babylon (2 Kings 25:27-28), 562 BC by the arithmetic, a quiet token that David's line endured.
📖 2 Kgs 25:27–29
27On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison. 28And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 29So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.
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