2 Kings 25:30

and for his allowance. There was a continual allowance given him from the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

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In The 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.

In Context

29and changed his prison garments. And [Jehoiachin] ate bread before him continually all the days of his life,

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Cross References

Genesis 48:15And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

Nehemiah 11:23For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.

Jeremiah 22:26And I will cast thee out, and thy mother who bore thee, into another country where ye were not born, and there ye shall die.

Matthew 6:11Give us this day the bread sufficient for us.

Acts 6:1Now in those days, the disciples being multiplied, there developed a murmuring of the Hellenists against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily assistance.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 25:23-30

Dispersion of the Remnant of Judah. ( b. c. 552.) 22 And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler. 23 And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and… Read the whole commentary →

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