Lexicon :: Strong's H1546 - gālûṯ

Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison;

“I have stirred up Cyrus and put him into action in righteousness [to accomplish My purpose]

And I will make all his ways smooth;

He will build My city and let My exiles go,

Without any payment or reward,” says the LORD of hosts.

The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had released him from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being taken as exiles to Babylon.

Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin [also called Coniah and Jeconiah] king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, [fn]showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

In the twelfth year of our exile [in Babylon], on the fifth of the tenth month, a survivor from Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been captured.”

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile [in Babylon], in the beginning of the year, on the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city [of Jerusalem] was taken, on that [very] same day the hand of the LORD was upon me and He brought me there.

Thus says the LORD,

“For three transgressions of Gaza [in Philistia] and for four (multiplied delinquencies)

I will not reverse its punishment or revoke My word concerning it,

Because [as slave traders] they took captive the entire [Jewish] population [of defenseless Judean border villages, of which none was spared]

And deported them to Edom [for the slave trade].

Thus says the LORD,

“For three transgressions of Tyre and for four (multiplied delinquencies)

I will not reverse its punishment or revoke My word concerning it,

Because they [as middlemen] deported an entire [Jewish] population to Edom

And did not [seriously] remember their covenant of brotherhood.

And the exiles of this host of the sons (descendants) of Israel

Who are among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath,

And the exiles of Jerusalem who are in [fn]Sepharad

Shall possess the cities of the Negev.