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King of Judah taken captive to Babylon, who after 37 years in prison was released by Evil-merodach and given a place of honor at the Babylonian royal table — a flicker of hope closing the book of 2 Kings
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Ancient Babylonian ration tablets record food supplies for 'Yaukin, king of the land of Yahud' — his name in Babylonian. Found at the ruins of Babylon, now at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
open_in_newJehoiachin was an eighteen-year-old king of Judah who reigned only three months before Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon captured Jerusalem and took him into exile around 597 BC. After thirty-seven years of imprisonment, he was released by the Babylonian king Evil-merodach and given a seat of honor at the royal table — a quiet note of grace that closes 2 Kings. He appears in 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and is listed in Matthew's genealogy of Jesus.