2 Kings 25:28-30

25:28 He spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prestigious position than 1  the other kings who were with him in Babylon. 25:29 Jehoiachin 2  took off his prison clothes and ate daily in the king’s presence for the rest of his life. 25:30 He was given daily provisions by the king for the rest of his life until the day he died. 3 

1 tn Heb “made his throne above the throne of.”

2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jehoiachin) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

3 tc The words “until the day he died” do not appear in the MT, but they are included in the parallel passage in Jer 52:34. Probably they have been accidentally omitted by homoioteleuton. A scribe’s eye jumped from the final vav (ו) on בְּיוֹמוֹ (bÿyomo), “in his day,” to the final vav (ו) on מוֹתוֹ (moto), “his death,” leaving out the intervening words.