26. And all the people, small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose and went to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
27. Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity 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 began to reign, released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison.
28. He spoke kindly to him, and gave him a more prominent seat than those of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
29. So Jehoiachin changed from his prison garments, and he ate bread regularly before the king all the days of his life.