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24 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers. 25 From the people left in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men and seven royal advisors he found in the city. He also took the scribe of the military officer who conscripted the people of the land, along with sixty of his men who were found in the city. 26 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 27 The king of Babylon struck them down and executed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath.

So Judah was carried away into exile from its native soil.

28 This is a tally of people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away into exile:

In the seventh year, 3,023 Jews.

29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, 832 people from Jerusalem.

30 In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews into exile.

There were 4,600 people in all.

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