Jer 52:31 | NET2full | STEP | In the thirty - seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah , on the twenty - fifth day of the twelfth month , King Evil Merodach of Babylon , in the first year of his reign , pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison .

Jeremiah 52:31

Jehoiachin in Exile

31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth ^{▼▼sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:27 has “twenty-seventh.”} day of the twelfth month, ^{▼▼sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.} King Evil Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ^{▼▼tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”} King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.