Elderly Jehoiachin Cared for in Babylon

²⁷ It happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month on the twenty-seventh of the month, lifted Evil-Merodach king of Babylon in the year that he became king, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from the house of imprisonment. ²⁸ He spoke kindly^[a] to him, and he gave him a better seat than the seat of the kings who were with him in Babylon. ²⁹ So he changed the clothes of his imprisonment, and he ate food continually in his presence all the days of his life. ³⁰ His allowance was continually given to him from the king, a portion every day^[b] all the days of his life.