Jeremiah 52:24-34

New International Version

²⁴The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah^(A) the chief priest, Zephaniah^(B) the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers.^(C) ²⁵Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and seven royal advisers. He also took the secretary^(D) who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land, sixty of whom were found in the city. ²⁶Nebuzaradan^(E) the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. ²⁷There at Riblah,^(F) in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.

So Judah went into captivity, away^(G) from her land. ²⁸This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile:^(H)

in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

²⁹in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year,

832 people from Jerusalem;

³⁰in his twenty-third year,

745 Jews taken into exile^(I) by Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard.

There were 4,600 people in all.^(J)

Jehoiachin Released^(K)

³¹In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin^(L) king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah and freed him from prison. ³²He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. ³³So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king’s table.^(M) ³⁴Day by day the king of Babylon gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance^(N) as long as he lived, till the day of his death.