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In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison;
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he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the other seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
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So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes. Every day of his life he dined regularly in the king's presence.
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For his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, a portion every day, as long as he lived.
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