OET-RV JER section

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Jer 52:24–34

2Ki 25:18–21

2Ki 25:27–30

52:24 The capturing of Jews and carrying them there to Babylon

(2 Kgs 25:18-21)

24 ◙ 25 ◙ 26 ◙ 27 ◙

… 28 ◙ 29 ◙ 30 ◙

31 ◙ 32 ◙ 33 ◙ 34 ◙

25:18 The people of Yehudah get exiled to Babylon

(Jer. 52:24-27)

18 Nevuzaradan exiled to Babylon the high priest Serayah, the second priest Tsefanyah, and the three temple entrance guards. 19 From the city, he took one official who was a military inspector, five of the king’s advisors, and the army commander’s secretary in charge of recruitment, plus sixty other important men. 20 Nevuzaradan took them all to the Babylonian king at Rivlah 21 in the Hamat region, but the king had them all executed there.

25:21 The governor there to Yehudah Gidaliyas www

(Jer. 40:7-9)

So the large majority of the people of Yehudah were exiled out of their country.

25:27 Yehoyakin gets released from prison

(Jer. 52:31-34)

27 Thirty-seven years after Yehudah’s King Yehoyakin had been exiled to Babylon, Evil-Merodak had just become the new king of Babylon and he released Yehoyakin from prison on the 27th of the twelfth month. 28 He spoke kindly to Yehoyakin and honoured him more than the other kings who’d been taken to Babylon. 29 He was allowed to change out of his prison clothes, and was permitted to eat at the king’s table for the rest of his life, 30 as well as being given a daily monetary allowance.

OET-RV by cross-referenced section JER 52:24

The capturing of Jews and carrying them there to Babylon

Jer 52:24–34

2Ki 25:18–21

2Ki 25:27–30