2 Kings 25:30

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.

Young's Literal Translation

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 hath changed the garments of his restraint, and he hath eaten bread continually before him all days of his life,

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Cross References

Genesis 48:15And he blesseth Joseph, and saith, 'God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked habitually: God who is feeding me from my being unto this day:

Nehemiah 11:23for the command of the king [is] upon them, and support [is] for the singers, a matter of a day in its day.

Jeremiah 22:26And I have cast thee, And thy mother who bore thee, unto another country, Where ye were not born, and there do ye die.

Matthew 6:11'Our appointed bread give us to-day.

Acts 6:1And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration,

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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