Now it came about 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 that he became king, released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison;Judah has fallen. Jehoiachin the king has seen his family slaughtered, then he is blinded, and taken away to a Babylonian jail. He spends almost forty years there, and then is released. The new king of Babylon takes pity on him, and gives him some dignity back.
In this I see that even when God has condemned you, He may still choose to show some mercy. He could have had Nebuchadnezzar kill Jehoiachin when he was first captured. He could have let him rot in jail until his death. But God allowed him to be given a reprieve. He didn't restore the kingdom to him, but he was allowed to live out what remained of his life in relative comfort.
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