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2 Kings 25:25-29

2 Kings 25:25

But it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family, 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.

2 Kings 25:26

Then all the people, from the small to the great, and the captains of the forces set out and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

2 Kings 25:27

Now it came about 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, released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison;

2 Kings 25:28

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

2 Kings 25:29

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