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28 [a]This is the number of people whom Nebuchadnezzar led away into exile: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Judeans; 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred and thirty-two people were deported from Jerusalem; 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took into exile seven hundred and forty-five Judeans. Thus there was a total of four thousand six hundred persons.

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  1. Jeremiah 52:28 This piece of information, which is dated according to the Babylonian calendar, shows that a third deportation was added to those of 599 and 587 B.C. The figures, which are doubtless incomplete, do not correspond to those in 2 Ki 24:14-16 and do not agree given the total number of deportees.