2 Kings 25:28

King James Version (1611 Edition)

And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne aboue the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He spoke kindly to him and set his throne over the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

Hebrew Names Version
and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Bavel,

King James Version
And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;

English Standard Version
And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

New Century Version
Evil-Merodach spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and gave him a seat of honor above the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

New English Translation
He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

Amplified Bible
and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the [other] kings [of captive peoples] who were with him in Babylon.

New American Standard Bible
and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

World English Bible
and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And spake kindly to him, & set his throne aboue the throne of the Kings that were with him in Babel,

Legacy Standard Bible
and he spoke to him good words, and he set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

Berean Standard Bible
And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne over the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

Contemporary English Version
Evil-Merodach was kind to Jehoiachin and honored him more than any of the other kings held prisoner there.

Complete Jewish Bible
He treated him with kindness and gave him a throne higher than those of the other kings there with him in Bavel.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
Evil Merodach was kind to Jehoiachin. He gave him a more important place to sit than the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

George Lamsa Translation
And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon;

Good News Translation
Evilmerodach treated him kindly and gave him a position of greater honor than he gave the other kings who were exiles with him in Babylonia.

Lexham English Bible
He spoke kindly to him, and he gave him a better seat than the seat of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

Literal Translation
and spoke good things with him, and put his throne above the throne of the kings with him in Babylon.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and spake louyngly vnto him, and set his trone aboue ye trones of ye kynges that were with him at Babilon,

American Standard Version
and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

Bible in Basic English
And said kind words to him, and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And spake kindely to him, and set his seate aboue the seate of the kinges that were with him in Babylon,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon;

English Revised Version
and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
fro prisoun, and spak to hym benygneli; and he settide the trone of Joakyn aboue the trone of kyngis, that weren with hym in Babilonye.

Update Bible Version
and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

Webster's Bible Translation
And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that [were] with him in Babylon;

New King James Version
He spoke kindly to him, and gave him a more prominent seat than those of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

New Living Translation
He spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and gave him a higher place than all the other exiled kings in Babylon.

New Life Bible
He spoke kind words to him, and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

New Revised Standard
he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the other seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and he spake with him kind words, - and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he spoke kindly to him: and he set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon.

Revised Standard Version
and he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

Young's Literal Translation
and speaketh with him good things and putteth his throne above the throne of the kings who [are] with him in Babylon,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

Contextual Overview

²² And as for the people that remained in the land of Iudah, whom Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon had left, euen ouer them he made Gedaliah the sonne of Ahikam, the sonne of Shaphan, ruler. ²³ And when all the captaines of the armies, they, and their men, heard that the King of Babylon had made Gedaliah gouernour, there came to Gedaliah to Mispah, euen Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah, and Iohanan the sonne of Careah, and Seraiah the sonne of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Iaazaniah the sonne of a Maachathite, they, and their men. ²⁴ And Gedaliah sware to them and to their men, and said vnto them, Feare not to be the seruants of the Caldees: dwell in the land, and serue the King of Babylon; and it shall bee well with you. ²⁵ But it came to passe in the seuenth moneth, that Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah, the sonne of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Iewes, and the Caldees that were with him at Mizpah. ²⁶ And all the people both small and great, and the captaines of the armies arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Caldees. ²⁷ And it came to passe in the seuen and thirtieth yeere of the captiuitie of Iehoiachin king of Iudah, in the twelfth moneth, on the seuen and twentieth day of the moneth, that Euilmerodach king of Babylon, in the yeere that he began to reigne, did lift vp the head of Iehoiachin king of Iudah out of prison. ²⁸ And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne aboue the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, ²⁹ And changed his prison garments: and he did eate bread continually before him all the dayes of his life. ³⁰ And his allowance was a continuall allowance giuen him of the king, a dayly rate for euery day, all the dayes of his life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

kindly to him: Heb. good things with him

the throne: Jeremiah 27:6-11, Daniel 2:37, Daniel 5:18, Daniel 5:19

Cross-References

Genesis 25:6
But vnto the sonnes of the concubines which Abraham had, Abraham gaue gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his sonne (while he yet liued) Eastward, vnto the East country.

Genesis 25:7
And these are the dayes of the yeres of Abrahams life which he liued; an hundred, threescore & fifteene yeeres.

Genesis 27:4
And make me sauoury meat, such as I loue, and bring it to mee, that I may eate, that my soule may blesse thee before I die.

Genesis 27:9
Goe now to the flocke, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goates, and I will make them sauoury meat for thy father, such as he loueth.

Genesis 27:19
And Iacob said vnto his father, I am Esau, thy first borne; I haue done according as thou badest mee: arise, I pray thee, sit, and eate of my venison, that thy soule may blesse me.

Genesis 27:25
And he said, Bring it neere to me, and I will eate of my sonnes venison, that my soule may blesse thee: and hee brought it neere to him, and he did eate: and he brought him wine, & he dranke.

Genesis 27:31
And hee also had made sauoury meate, and brought it vnto his father, and said vnto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his sonnes venison, that thy soule may blesse me.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The kings that were with him - Probably captive kings, like Jehoiachin himself. Compare Judges 1:7.