27. In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the inaugural year of his own reign, raised up Jehoiachin, king of Judah, from prison.
28. He spoke kindly to him and gave him a throne higher than that of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
29. Jehoiachin took off his prison garb; he ate regularly in the king’s presence as long as he lived;
30. and for his allowance the king granted him a regular allowance, in fixed daily amounts, for as long as he lived.