Jeremiah 52:31

Overview - Jeremiah 52
Zedekiah rebels.
Jerusalem is besieged and taken.
Zedekiah's sons killed, and his own eyes put out.
12 Nebuzar-adan burns and spoils the city.
24 He carries away the captives.
28 The number of Jews carried captive.
31 Evil-merodach advances Jehoiachin.
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Jeremiah 52:31  (King James Version)
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,
 


A
M. 3442. B.C. 562. it came.
2 Kings 25:27-30

in the twelfth
Nearly answering to our 25th of April, A
M. 3442.

king of Babylon
Proverbs 21:1

lifted up
This phrase is founded on the observation that those in sorrow hold down their heads; and, when comforted, or the cause of their sorrow removed, they lift up their heads.
Genesis 40:13 Genesis 40:20 ; Job 22:29 ; Psalms 3:3 ; 27:6