26. Then all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies arose and went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
27. In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Awel-Marduk king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison.
28. He spoke kindly to him, and gave him a throne above the thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon.
29. He changed his prison garments, and he ate food continually before him all the days of his life.
30. His allowance was a regular allowance given him by the king every day, all the days of his life.