31 Jehoiachin was a prisoner in Babylon for thirty-seven years. Then Evil-Merodach became king of Babylonia, and in the first year of his rule, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he let Jehoiachin out of prison.
32 Evil-Merodach was kind to Jehoiachin and honoured him more than any of the other kings held prisoner there.
33 Jehoiachin was allowed to wear ordinary clothes instead of a prison uniform, and he even ate at the king's table every day.
34 As long as Jehoiachin lived, he was paid a daily allowance to buy whatever he needed.