2 Kings 25:27-30

GOD’S WORD Translation

King Jehoiakin Released from Prison^(A)

²⁷ On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the imprisonment of King Jehoiakin of Judah, King Evil Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, freed King Jehoiakin of Judah from prison. ²⁸ He treated him well and gave him a special position higher than the other kings who were with him in Babylon. ²⁹ Jehoiakin no longer wore prison clothes, and he ate his meals in the king’s presence as long as he lived. ³⁰ The king of Babylon gave him a daily food allowance as long as he lived.