‘As I live’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘though you, Coniah , son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a signet ring on my right hand, I would tear you from it.
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned for three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.
But the Lord, the God of their ancestors sent word against them by the hand of his messengers, sending them time and time again, for he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.