2 Kings 25:30
And his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, the necessary ration for the day on its day, all the days of his life.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
29And changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days of his life.
Cross References
Genesis 48:15And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who fed me from my first being unto this day,
Nehemiah 11:23For the king's command was obligatory on them; and there was a fixed rate for the singers, the requirement of every day on its day.
Jeremiah 22:26And I will hurl thee out, and thy mother that hath born thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
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 →