And his[R.V. for his] allowance i.e. He was assigned a regular amount in money or in kind for the keeping of such attendants as a captive king might be supposed to require.

a daily rate for every day R.V. every day a portion. This is the A.V. rendering in Jeremiah 52:34, where the history says -until the day of his death all the days of his life", an emphatic mode of expressing that the king's mind did not change, nor was the arrangement altered by Evil-merodach's successor.

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