28He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.


In Context

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.

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.

27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Evil-Merodach became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin from prison on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month.

28 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

29 So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king's table.

30 Day by day the king gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived.

2nd Kings 25:28 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:28And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

25:28And he spoke kindly to him: and he set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

25:28and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:28and he spoke kindly to him, and set his seat above the seat of the kings that were with him in Babylon.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

25:28and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:28And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:28and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

25:28and speaketh with him good things and putteth his throne above the throne of the kings who are with him in Babylon,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:28And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;