Jehoiachin released from prison
2 Kings 25:27–30; Jeremiah 52:31–34
After 37 years in prison, King Jehoiachin was released by Nebuchadnezzar's successor, given a seat of honor, and ate at the king's table for the rest of his life.
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
2 Kings 25:27 (World English Bible)
2 Kings ends here, on a small note of hope: David's line was still alive in exile. Jehoiachin appears in the genealogy of Jesus as Jechoniah (Matthew 1:12).
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Dating notes
In the first year of Evil-merodach (Amel-Marduk), 562 BC.