BRIEF NOTES
*The Reference is from the many Discovered administrative tablets discovered in King Nebuchadnezzar's palace in Babylon. These texts record rations of oil to captives from many nations. One of them is Jehoiachin, the exiled king of Judah together with several of his sons and likely what were his servents or leading officials
TRANSLATION
32 pints (15 Liters) (of sesame oil) for Jehoiachin king of Judah
pints (2.5 litres) (of sesame oil) for (the 5) sons of the King of Judah
8 pints (4 litres) (of sesame oil) for 8 men of Judah: 1 pint (1/2 liter) each
BIBLE REFERENCE
2Ki 24:8
2Ki 24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Jerusalem three months: and his mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
2Ki 24:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father had done.
2Ki 24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
2Ki 24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it;
2Ki 24:12 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
2Ki 24:13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Jehovah, as Jehovah had said.
2Ki 24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
2Ki 24:15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2Ki 24:16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths a thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
2Ki 24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's father's brother, king is his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
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Ki 25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
2Ki 25:28 and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,
2Ki 25:29 and changed his prison garments. And Jehoiachin did eat bread before him continually all the days of his life:
2Ki 25:30 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.
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