27. Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, that King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the year he became king, released King Jehoiachin of Judah from Prison.
28. He spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
29. So he changed his prison garments, and regularly ate bread in the king’s presence all the days of his life.
30. As for his allowance, a regular allowance was granted to him by the king, an allotment for each day, all the days of his life.