officers: or, eunuchs

his reign: Nebuchadnezzar's eighth year

Geneva Study Bible

And Jehoiachin the king of Judah {d} 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 {e} of his reign.

(d) That is, yielded himself to him by the counsel of Jeremiah.

(e) In the reign of the king of Babylon.

Scofield Reference Notes

Margin the king

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