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Then all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces arose and went to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
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Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison ;
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and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
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Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes and had his meals in the king's presence regularly all the days of his life;
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and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life.