2 Kings 25:27
On 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.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHERE
- Babylon 1
- WHEN
- 586 BC
ON THE MAP
WHEN
586 BC
counted from the text
The destruction of Solomon's Temple.
WHO RULED
- Nebuchadnezzar II king of Babylon 605-562 BC
MEANWHILE
-
586 BC Judea
Destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple
The end of the kingdom of Judah, and the start of the seventy years.
SOURCES
- date — 2 Kings 25:8 dates itself by the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar; the Babylonian Chronicles, which fix the start of his reign in 605 BC, convert the year.
- Nebuchadnezzar II — Babylonian Chronicles (ABC 5), which date the Battle of Carchemish and the first campaign against Judah; Berossus, cited by Josephus in Against Apion I
- Destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple — Babylonian Chronicles; 2 Kings 25:8-9
SEE ALSO
- Genesis 40:20 On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
- Jeremiah 52:31-34 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,…
- Genesis 40:13 Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.
- 2 Kings 24:12 Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of…
- Proverbs 21:1 The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.
- 2 Kings 24:15 Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem…
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