²⁸ For ^(A)all my father’s household was only people worthy of death to my lord the king; ^(B)yet you placed your servant among those who ate at your own table. So what right do I still have, that I should ^[a]complain anymore to the king?”

⁷ However, ^(A)show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and ^(B)let them be among those who eat at your table; ^(C)for ^[a]they assisted me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

²⁹ So ^[a]Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and ^[b](A)had his meals in ^[c]the king’s presence regularly all the days of his life;