Holy Scripture

2 Kings 25:28

A church father on this verse
“Jeremiah calls this son of Jehoiakim Jeconiah, and the Pharaoh Neco called the father of this man, though named Eliakim, Jehoiakim, whom Babylon, having carried off, cast forth before the gate, as the present prophet and Josephus in the tenth book of his Antiquities says. And the other editions have given the signet r…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — FRAGMENTS FROM THE CATENA ON JEREMIAH 14

Source: Septuagint

Original

28And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon;

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In context

26And all the people, great and small rose up, they and the captains of the forces, and went into Egypt; because they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

27And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the carrying away 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 first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him out of his prison house.

— 2 Kings 25:28 —

29and changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days of his life.

30And his portion, a continual portion, was given him out of the house of the king, a daily rate for every day all the days of his life.

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