26
Then all the people, from youngest to oldest, and the commanders of the troops, went [to] Egypt, for they were afraid of the presence of the Chaldeans.
27
It happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month on the twenty-seventh of the month, lifted Evil-Merodach king of Babylon in the year that he became king, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from the house of imprisonment.
28
He spoke {kindly} to him, and he gave him a better seat than the seat of the kings who [were] with him in Babylon.
29
So he changed the clothes of his imprisonment, and he ate food continually in his presence all the days of his life.
30
His allowance was continually given to him from the king, {a portion every day} all the days of his life.
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