³¹ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the Golus of Y’hoyakhin Melech Yehudah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Eveel-Merodach Melech Bavel in the first year of his reign [562 B.C.E.] lifted up the head of Y’hoyakhin Melech Yehudah, and brought him forth out of prison [561 B.C.E.].

³² And spoke kindly unto him, and set his throne above the kisse of the melachim that were with him in Babylon,

³³ And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat lechem before him all the days of his life.