Graphic Bible · Scene 27 of 30

In Babylon decades later, aubergine-clad Evil-merodach opens a plain prison gate for graying older Jehoiachin in worn muted teal; same aged face as his youth, no younger duplicate.
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2 Kings 25:27

Jehoiachin released

Jerusalem Falls; Hope in Exile · 2 Kings 25

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27And it happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of the prison.

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