Jehoiachin Released from Prison

In the thirty-seventh year of Jehoiachin's exile, Evil-merodach king of Babylon lifts up the head of the captive Judean king and brings him out of prison. He speaks kindly to him, elevates him above the other captive kings in Babylon, changes his prison clothes, and gives him a regular place at the royal table. Jehoiachin then receives a continual allowance for all his remaining days.

O³¹n the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison. ³²And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. ³³So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life. ³⁴And the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death.