2 Kings 25:26-28

Common English Bible

²⁶ Then all the people, young and old, along with the army officers, departed for Egypt because they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

Jehoiachin in Babylon

²⁷ In the year that Awil-merodach^[a] became king of Babylon, he released Judah’s King Jehoiachin from prison. This happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month. ²⁸ Awil-merodach spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and seated him above the other kings who were with him in Babylon.