²⁸ For ^(A)all my father’s household was nothing but dead men before my lord the king; ^(B)yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right do I have yet that I should ^[a]complain anymore to the king?”

⁷ But ^(A)show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and ^(B)let them be among those who eat at your table; ^(C)for they ^[a]assisted me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

^29 [a]Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes and ^[b](A)had his meals in ^[c]the king’s presence regularly all the days of his life;