2nd Kings Chapter 25 verse 30 Holy 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.
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And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.
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and his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.
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And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
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And his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
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and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.
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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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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.)
