31In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babel lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of the house of confinement.32He spoke kindly with him and gave him a throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.33He changed his prison garments, and he ate bread before him continually all the days of his life.34His allowance—a continual allowance—was given him by the king of Babylon, a portion each day for all the days of his life until the day of his death.