2 Kings 25:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

lift up the head. Hebrew idiom. show favour to.

out of prison. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "and brought him forth out of his prison". Compare Jeremiah 52:31.

2 Kings 25:27

27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;