2 Kings 25:27-29

Good News Translation

Jehoiachin Is Released from Prison^(A)

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. 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. 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.