^27 (A)Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of ^(B)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, ^[a](C)released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison; ²⁸ and he ^(D)spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon. ²⁹ So ^[b]Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and ^[c](E)had his meals in ^[d]the king’s presence regularly all the days of his life; ³⁰ and as his ^(F)allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life.