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The king treated him most courteously and gave him preferential treatment beyond anything experienced by the other political prisoners held in Babylon.
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Evil-Merodach spoke kindly to Jehoiachin. He gave him a place of honor. Other kings were with Jehoiachin in Babylon. But his place was more important than theirs.
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and spake to him benignly; and he set the throne of Jehoiachin above the throne of (the) kings, that were with him in Babylon. (and spoke kindly to him; and he put Jehoiachin's seat above the seats of the other kings, who were with him for meals in Babylon.)