Bible Cross References
A. M. 3442. B.C. 562. it came to pass
Jeremiah 24:5
"I, the LORD, the God of Israel, consider that the people who were taken away to Babylonia are like these good figs, and I will treat them with kindness.
Jeremiah 24:6
I will watch over them and bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not pull them up.
Jeremiah 52:31-34
31
In the year that Evil-merodach became king of Babylonia, he showed kindness to King Jehoiachin of Judah by releasing him from prison. This happened on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin had been taken away as a prisoner.
32
Evil-merodach treated him kindly and gave him a position of greater honor than he gave the other kings who were exiles with him in Babylonia.
33
So Jehoiachin was permitted to change from his prison clothes and to dine at the king's table for the rest of his life.
34
Each day for as long as he lived, he was given a regular allowance for his needs.
king of Babylon
Proverbs 21:1
The LORD controls the mind of a king as easily as he directs the course of a stream.
lift up the head
Genesis 40:13
In three days the king will release you, pardon you, and restore you to your position. You will give him his cup as you did before when you were his wine steward.
Genesis 40:20
On his birthday three days later the king gave a banquet for all his officials; he released his wine steward and his chief baker and brought them before his officials.