2 Kings 25:30
New International Version
Day by day the king gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived.

New Living Translation
So the king gave him a regular food allowance as long as he lived.

English Standard Version
and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, according to his daily needs, as long as he lived.

Berean Standard Bible
And the king provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life.

King James Bible
And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.

New King James Version
And as for his provisions, there was a regular ration given him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life.

New American Standard Bible
and as his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life.

NASB 1995
and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life.

NASB 1977
and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life.

Legacy Standard Bible
and for his allowance, a continual allowance was given him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life.

Amplified Bible
and his allowance, a continual one, was given to him by the king (Evil-meridach), a portion every day, for the rest of his life.

Christian Standard Bible
As for his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king, a portion for each day, for the rest of his life.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As for his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king, a portion for each day, for the rest of his life.

American Standard Version
and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And with his banqueting a meal was given to him constantly before the King of Babel, every day, all the days of his life.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And 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.

Contemporary English Version
As long as Jehoiachin lived, he was paid a daily allowance to buy whatever he needed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he appointed him a continual allowance, which was also given him by the king day by day, all the days of his life.

English Revised Version
and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The king of Babylon gave him a daily food allowance as long as he lived.

Good News Translation
Each day, for as long as he lived, he was given a regular allowance for his needs.

International Standard Version
and a regular stipend was provided to him by the king in accordance with his needs for as long as he lived.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

Literal Standard Version
and his allowance—a continual allowance—has been given to him from the king, the matter of a day in its day, all [the] days of his life.

Majority Standard Bible
And the king provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life.

New American Bible
and for his allowance the king granted him a regular allowance, in fixed daily amounts, for as long as he lived.

NET Bible
He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died.

New Revised Standard Version
For his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, a portion every day, as long as he lived.

New Heart English Bible
and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

Webster's Bible Translation
And his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.

World English Bible
and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him from the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

Young's Literal Translation
and his allowance -- a continual allowance -- hath been given to him from the king, the matter of a day in its day, all days of his life.

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Context
Jehoiachin Released from Prison
29So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life. 30 And the king provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life.

Cross References
Nehemiah 11:23
For there was a command from the king concerning the singers, an ordinance regulating their daily activities.

Nehemiah 12:47
So in the days of Zerubbabel and Nehemiah, all Israel contributed the daily portions for the singers and gatekeepers. They also set aside daily portions for the Levites, and the Levites set aside daily portions for the descendants of Aaron.

Jeremiah 52:34
And the king of Babylon provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death.


Treasury of Scripture

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

a daily rate.

Nehemiah 11:23
For it was the king's commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.

Nehemiah 12:47
And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.

Daniel 1:5
And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.

all the days of his life.

Genesis 48:15,16
And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, …

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2 Kings 25
1. Jerusalem is besieged.
4. Zedekiah taken, his sons slain, his eyes put out.
8. Nebuzaradan defaces the city, exiles the remnant, except a few poor laborers;
13. and carries away the treasures.
18. The nobles are slain at Riblah.
22. Gedaliah, who was over those who remained, being slain, the rest flee into Egypt.
27. Evil-Merodach advances Jehoiachin in his court.














(30) His allowance.--For the maintenance of his little court. Literally, And (as for) his allowance a continual allowance was given him from the king, a day's portion in its day.

All the days of his (Jehoiachin's) life.--He may have died before Evil-merodach was murdered. There would be nothing strange in this, considering his age and his thirty-seven years of imprisonment.

The writer evidently dwells with pleasure on this faint gleam of light amid the darkness of the exile. It was a kind of foreshadowing of the pity which afterwards was to be extended to the captive people, when the divine purpose had been achieved, and the exile had done its work of chastisement and purification. (Comp, Psalm 106:46; Ezra 9:9; Nehemiah 2:2.)

Verse 30. - And his allowance was a continual allowance. Keil supposes that this "allowance" was a daily "ration of food," intended for the maintenance of a certain number of servants or retainers. But it is quite as likely to have been a money payment. The word translated by "allowance" - אֲרֻחַת - does not point necessarily to food. It is a "portion' of any kind. Given him of the king - i.e., out of the privy purse, by the king's command - a daily rate for every day - or, a certain amount day by day - all the days of his life (see the comment on the preceding verse). Beth the privileges accorded to Jehoiachin, his sustenance at the king's table, and his allowance, whether in money or in kind, continued to the day of his death. Neither of them was ever revoked or forfeited. Thus this last representative of the Davidic monarchy, after thirty-six years of chastisement, experienced a happy change of circumstances, and died in peace and comfort. Probably, as Keil says, "this event was intended as a comforting sign to the whole of the captive people, that the Lord would one day put an end to their banishment, if they would acknowledge that it was a well-merited punishment for their sins that they had been driven away from before his face, and would turn again to the Lord their God with all their heart."



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And the king
הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ (ham·me·leḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

provided [Jehoiachin]
נִתְּנָה־ (nit·tə·nāh-)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

a daily
י֣וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

portion
דְּבַר־ (də·ḇar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

for the rest
כֹּ֖ל (kōl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

of his life.
חַיָּֽו׃ (ḥay·yāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life


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