Jeremiah 52:31 meaning and explanation
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.
Jeremiah 52:31, Berean Standard Bible
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Jeremiah 52 ends with a small but striking act of mercy after chapters of ruin. The narrator, retelling Jerusalem's fall, dates the moment precisely: Jehoiachin, deported to Babylon as a young king, is released in the thirty-seventh year of his exile by the new Babylonian ruler Evil-merodach.
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