^27 (A)Now it happened 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, ^(C)lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison; ²⁸ and he ^(D)spoke to him good words, and he set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon. ²⁹ So ^[a]Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes and ^[b](E)had his meals in ^[c]the king’s presence continually all the days of his life; ³⁰ and for his ^(F)allowance, a continual allowance was given him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life.