2 Kings 25:25-30 ▼

25 But it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed, came with ten men and struck Gedaliah down so that he died, along with the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

26 Then all the people, both small and great, and the commanders of the military forces arose and went to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

27 Now it happened 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, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison;

28 and he spoke to him good words, and he set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

29 So Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes and had his meals in the king’s presence continually all the days of his life;

30 and for his allowance, a continual allowance was given him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life.