¹² Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered^(A) to him.

In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner. ¹³ As the Lord had declared,^(B) Nebuchadnezzar removed the treasures^(C) from the temple of the Lord and from the royal palace, and cut up the gold articles^(D) that Solomon^(E) king of Israel had made for the temple of the Lord. ¹⁴ He carried all Jerusalem into exile:^(F) all the officers and fighting men,^(G) and all the skilled workers and artisans—a total of ten thousand. Only the poorest^(H) people of the land were left.