Holy Scripture

Jeremiah 52:31

A church father on this verse
“[Daniel 5:1] "Belshazzar the king made a great feast for his one thousand nobles; and each one drank in the order of his age." It should be known that this man was not the son of Nebuchadnezzar, as readers commonly imagine; but according to Berosus, who wrote the history of the Chaldeans, and also Josephus, who follow…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Daniel, Chapter Five

Source: Septuagint

Original

31And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year after that Jehoiakim king of Judah had been carried away captive, in the twelfth month, on the four and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year in which he began to reign, raised the head of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and shaved him, and brought him out of the house where he was kept,

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In context

— Jeremiah 52:31 —

32and spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the kings that were with him in Babylon,

33and changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days that he lived.

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