2 Kings 25:25-30

25 But in the seventh month Yishma'el the son of N'tanyah, the son of Elishama, of royal blood, came with ten men and assassinated G'dalyah and the Judeans and Kasdim who were with him in Mitzpah.
26 In the wake of this, all kinds of people, great and small, as well as the army officers, set out and went to Egypt; because they were afraid of the Kasdim.
27 In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Y'hoyakhin king of Y'hudah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Eveel-M'rodakh began his reign as king of Bavel; and in his first year he commuted the sentence of Y'hoyakhin king of Y'hudah and released him from prison.
28 He treated him with kindness and gave him a throne higher than those of the other kings there with him in Bavel.
29 So Y'hoyakhin no longer had to wear prison clothes; moreover, he was provided with food as long as he lived;
30 and he was granted a daily allowance by the king to spend on his other needs for as long as he lived.
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