◄ 2 Kings 25:28 ►
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Good News Translation
Evil-merodach treated him kindly and gave him a position of greater honor than he gave the other kings who were exiles with him in Babylonia.

New Revised Standard Version
he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the other seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

Contemporary English Version
Evil-Merodach was kind to Jehoiachin and honored him more than any of the other kings held prisoner there.

New American Bible
He spoke kindly to him and gave him a throne higher than that of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he spoke kindly to him: and he set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he spoke kindly to him: and he set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon.

kindly to him.

Jeremiah 27:6-11 And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon my servant: moreover also the beasts of the field I have given him to serve him. . . .

Daniel 2:37 Thou art a king of kings: and the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, and strength, and power, and glory:

Daniel 5:18,19 O king, the most high God gave to Nabuchodonosor, thy father, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour. . . .

Context
Jehoiachin Released from Prison
27And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Joachin, king of Juda, in the twelfth month, the seven and twentieth day of the month: Evilmerodach, king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Joachin, king of Juda, out of prison. 28And he spoke kindly to him: and he set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon.29And he changed his garments which he had in prison, and he ate bread always before him, all the days of his life.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 52:32
And he spoke kindly to him, and he set his throne above the thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon.

Daniel 2:37
Thou art a king of kings: and the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, and strength, and power, and glory:

Daniel 5:18
O king, the most high God gave to Nabuchodonosor, thy father, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour.

Daniel 5:19
And for the greatness that he gave to him, all people, tribes, and languages trembled, and were afraid of him: whom he would, he slew: and whom he would, he destroyed: and whom he would, he set up: and whom he would, he brought down.

2 Kings 25:27
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