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|2 Reyes 25:22|
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to be over the people he had left behind in Judah.
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|2 Reyes 25:23|
When all the army officers and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah — Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, and their men.
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|2 Reyes 25:24|
Gedaliah took an oath to reassure them and their men. “Do not be afraid of the Babylonian officials,” he said. “Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.”
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|2 Reyes 25:25|
In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was of royal blood, came with ten men and assassinated Gedaliah and also the men of Judah and the Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.
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|2 Reyes 25:26|
At this, all the people from the least to the greatest, together with the army officers, fled to Egypt for fear of the Babylonians.
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|2 Reyes 25:27|
In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Evil-Merodach [Also called Amel-Marduk] became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin from prison on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month.
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|2 Reyes 25:28|
He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honour higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
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|2 Reyes 25:29|
So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king’s table.
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|2 Reyes 25:30|
Day by day the king gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived.
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