27 And in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison; 28 He spoke kindly to him and ranked him above the kings with him in Babylon. 29 Jehoiachin put off his prison garments, and he dined regularly at the king's table the remainder of his life. 30 And his allowance, a continual one, was given him by the king, every day a portion, for the rest of his life.