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New Living Translation

2 Kings 25:30

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Captive;   Evil-Merodach;   Jehoiachin;   Kindness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Babylon;   Jerusalem;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Jeremiah, the Book of;   Zedekiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Jehoiachin;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kings, First and Second, Theology of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Babylon, History and Religion of;   Jehoiachin;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Diet;   Evil-Merodach,;   Israel;   Jeremiah;   Kings, Books of;   Lamentations, Book of;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Evilmerodach ;   Jeremiah, Book of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Samaria;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;   Evil-merodach;   Jeremiah (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Allow;   Diet;   Evil-Merodach;   Jehoiachin;   Kings, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Captivity;  

Parallel Translations

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.
Hebrew Names 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.
King James Version
And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
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.
New Century Version
Every day, for as long as Jehoiachin lived, the king gave him an allowance.
New English Translation
He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died.
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.
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.
World 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And his portion was a continual portion giuen him by the King, euery day a certaine, all the dayes 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.
Berean Standard Bible
And the king provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life.
Contemporary English Version
As long as Jehoiachin lived, he was paid a daily allowance to buy whatever he needed.
Complete Jewish Bible
and he was granted a daily allowance by the king to spend on his other needs for as long as he lived.
Darby Translation
and his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.
Easy-to-Read Version
And each day, for as long as Jehoiachin lived, the king gave him enough money to pay for whatever he needed.
George Lamsa Translation
And his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, a portion for every day, all the days of his life.
Good News Translation
Each day, for as long as he lived, he was given a regular allowance for his needs.
Lexham English Bible
His allowance was continually given to him from the king, a portion every day all the days of his life.
Literal Translation
And his allowance, a continual allowance, was given to him from the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he appoynted him his porcion, which was euer geue him daylie of the kynge, as longe as he lyued.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
His portion was a continuall portion that was assigned him of the king, euery day a certaine as long as he lyued.
JPS Old Testament (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.
King James Version (1611)
And his allowance was a continuall allowance giuen him of the king, a dayly rate for euery day, all the dayes of his life.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also Euylmeradach ordeynede sustenaunce `to hym with out ceessyng; which sustenaunce also was youun of the kyng to hym bi alle daies, and in alle the daies of his lijf.
Update Bible Version
and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given to 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.
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 Life Bible
The King gave him a share of food every day for the rest of his life.
New Revised Standard
For his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, a portion every day, as long as he lived.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, as his allowance, a continual portion, was given him, from the king, the provision of a day upon its own day, - all the days of his life.
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.
Revised Standard Version
and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, every day a portion, as long as he lived.
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.
New American Standard Bible (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.

Contextual Overview

22 Then King Nebuchadnezzar appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan as governor over the people he had left in Judah. 23 When all the army commanders and their men learned that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they went to see him at Mizpah. These included Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jezaniah son of the Maacathite, and all their men. 24 Gedaliah vowed to them that the Babylonian officials meant them no harm. "Don't be afraid of them. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and all will go well for you," he promised. 25 But in midautumn of that year, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, went to Mizpah with ten men and killed Gedaliah. He also killed all the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah. 26 Then all the people of Judah, from the least to the greatest, as well as the army commanders, fled in panic to Egypt, for they were afraid of what the Babylonians would do to them. 27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, Evil-merodach ascended to the Babylonian throne. He was kind to Jehoiachin and released him from prison on April 2 of that year. 28 He spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and gave him a higher place than all the other exiled kings in Babylon. 29 He supplied Jehoiachin with new clothes to replace his prison garb and allowed him to dine in the king's presence for the rest of his life. 30 So the king gave him a regular food allowance as long as he lived.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a daily rate: Nehemiah 11:23, Nehemiah 12:47, Daniel 1:5, Matthew 6:11, Luke 11:3, Acts 6:1

all the days of his life: Genesis 48:15, Genesis 48:16

Reciprocal: Psalms 80:13 - The boar Proverbs 30:8 - convenient for me Jeremiah 50:17 - this Zechariah 1:18 - four

Cross-References

Genesis 25:14
Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
Genesis 25:21
Isaac pleaded with the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was unable to have children. The Lord answered Isaac's prayer, and Rebekah became pregnant with twins.
Genesis 36:1
This is the account of the descendants of Esau (also known as Edom).
Genesis 36:9
This is the account of Esau's descendants, the Edomites, who lived in the hill country of Seir.
Genesis 36:43
Magdiel, and Iram. These are the leaders of the clans of Edom, listed according to their settlements in the land they occupied. They all descended from Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites.
Exodus 15:15
The leaders of Edom are terrified; the nobles of Moab tremble. All who live in Canaan melt away;
Deuteronomy 23:7
"Do not detest the Edomites or the Egyptians, because the Edomites are your relatives and you lived as foreigners among the Egyptians.
2 Kings 8:20
During Jehoram's reign, the Edomites revolted against Judah and crowned their own king.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Allowance - From the treasury, in order to enable him to maintain the state proper to his rank, and in addition to his food at the royal table. Jehoiachin, to the day of his death, lived in peace and comfort at the court of Babylon (compare Jeremiah 52:34).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 25:30. A continual allowance given him of the king — He lived in a regal style, and had his court even in the city of Babylon, being supplied with every requisite by the munificence and friendship of the king. In about two years after this, Evil-merodach was slain in a conspiracy; and it is supposed that Jehoiachin, then about fifty-eight years of age, fell with his friend and protector. Thus terminates the catastrophe of the Jewish kings, people, and state; the consequence of unheard-of rebellions and provocations against the Majesty of heaven.

MASORETIC NOTES ON THE FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF KINGS

WE have already seen that the Hebrews consider these two books as one: -

The NUMBER of verses in both is one thousand five hundred and thirty-four.

MASORETIC SECTIONS, thirty-five.

MIDDLE VERSE, 1 Kings 21:6. And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me, &c.


 
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