Jeremiah 52:31-34

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Jehoiachin Is Set Free

³¹ Jehoiachin king of Judah was in prison in Babylon for thirty-seven years. The year Evil-Merodach became king of Babylon [^Ca son of Nebuchadnezzar, he ruled 562–560 bc] he let Jehoiachin king of Judah out of ·prison [^Lhouse of confinement]. He set Jehoiachin free on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month [^CMarch 31, 561 bc]. ³² Evil-Merodach spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and gave him a seat of honor above the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon [^Che honored him above other defeated vassal kings]. ³³ So Jehoiachin put away his prison clothes, and for the rest of his life, he ate at the king’s table. ³⁴ Every day the king of Babylon gave Jehoiachin an allowance. This lasted as long as he lived, until the day Jehoiachin died.