2 Kings 25:26-28 New English Translation (NET Bible)

²⁶ Then all the people, from the youngest to the oldest, as well as the army officers, left for^[a] Egypt, because they were afraid of what the Babylonians might do.

Jehoiachin in Babylon

²⁷ In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-seventh^[b] day of the twelfth month,^[c] King Evil Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned^[d] King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him^[e] from prison. ²⁸ He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than^[f] the other kings who were with him in Babylon.