Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
27 In the year that Evilmerodach became king of Babylonia, he showed kindness to King Jehoiachin of Judah by releasing him from prison. This happened on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin had been taken away as prisoner.
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In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison. He did this on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month.
28 Evilmerodach treated him kindly and gave him a position of greater honor than he gave the other kings who were exiles with him in Babylonia.
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He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
29 So Jehoiachin was permitted to change from his prison clothes and to dine at the king's table for the rest of his life.
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So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king’s table.
30 Each day, for as long as he lived, he was given a regular allowance for his needs.
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Day by day the king gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived.
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