³¹ And in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin [also called Coniah and Jeconiah] king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah [and showed favor to him] and brought him out of prison.^(A)

³² He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were [captives] with him in Babylon,

³³ Jehoiachin put off his prison garments, and he dined regularly at the king’s table all the days of his life.