2 Kings 25:27

27 factum est vero anno tricesimo septimo transmigrationis Ioiachin regis Iudae mense duodecimo vicesima septima die mensis sublevavit Evilmerodach rex Babylonis anno quo regnare coeperat caput Ioiachin regis Iuda de carcere

2 Kings 25:27 Meaning and Commentary

Ver. 27-30. And it came to pass in the thirty and seventh year
of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah
Who must then be fifty five years of age:

in the twelfth month, on the twenty and seventh day of the month;
in ( Jeremiah 52:31 ) it is said to be the twenty fifth day; of the reason of which difference, (See Gill on Jeremiah 52:31):

that Evilmerodach king of Babylon;
who is supposed, by some ^F26", to be the same with Belshazzar, and his successor Neriglissar, the same with Darius the Mede in Daniel. From hence, to the end of the chapter, the same account is given of the kindness of this king to Jehoiachin, as in ( Jeremiah 52:31-34 ) . (See Gill on Jeremiah 52:31), (See Gill on Jeremiah 52:32), (See Gill on Jeremiah 52:33), (See Gill on Jeremiah 52:34).

Metasthenes ^F1 calls him Amilinus Evilmerodach, and says he reigned thirty years, and makes Belshazzar, or Baltassar, as he calls him, his third son.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Vid. Lampe, Eccles. Hist. l. 1. c. 7. sect. 18.
F1 Ut supra. (De Judicio Temp. & Annal. Pers. fol. 221. 2.)

2 Kings 25:27 In-Context

25 factum est autem in mense septimo venit Ismahel filius Nathaniae filii Elisama de semine regio et decem viri cum eo percusseruntque Godoliam qui mortuus est sed et Iudaeos et Chaldeos qui erant cum eo in Maspha

26 consurgens autem omnis populus a parvo usque ad magnum et principes militum venerunt in Aegyptum timentes Chaldeos

27 factum est vero anno tricesimo septimo transmigrationis Ioiachin regis Iudae mense duodecimo vicesima septima die mensis sublevavit Evilmerodach rex Babylonis anno quo regnare coeperat caput Ioiachin regis Iuda de carcere

28 et locutus est ei benigna et posuit thronum eius super thronum regum qui erant cum eo in Babylone

29 et mutavit vestes eius quas habuerat in carcere et comedebat panem semper in conspectu eius cunctis diebus vitae suae