24 The captain of the guards also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of the second rank, and the three doorkeepers. 25 From the city he took a court official[a] who had been appointed over the warriors; seven trusted royal aides[b] found in the city; the secretary of the commander of the army, who enlisted the people of the land for military duty; and sixty men from the common people[c] who were found within the city. 26 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 27 The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.(A)

28 These are the people Nebuchadnezzar deported:(B) in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews; 29 in his eighteenth year,[d] 832 people from Jerusalem; 30 in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, deported 745 Jews. Altogether, 4,600 people were deported.

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Footnotes

  1. 52:25 Or a eunuch
  2. 52:25 Lit seven men who look on the king’s face
  3. 52:25 Lit the people of the land
  4. 52:29 Some Hb mss, Syr add he deported

24 Then the captain of the guard[a] took Seraiah the chief priest,[b] and Zephaniah the second priest,[c] and three keepers of the threshold. 25 And from the city he took one high official who was chief officer over the soldiers,[d] and seven men of the king’s advisors[e] who were found in the city, and the secretary of the commander of the army who levied for military service the people of the land, and sixty men[f] of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city. 26 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard[g] took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 27 And the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah left from its land.

28 This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Judeans; 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred and thirty-two persons[h] from Jerusalem; 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard,[i] deported seven hundred and forty-five Judean persons;[j] there were four thousand six hundred persons[k] in all.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:24 Hebrew “guards”
  2. Jeremiah 52:24 Literally “the priest of the head”
  3. Jeremiah 52:24 Literally “the priest of the second”
  4. Jeremiah 52:25 Literally “the men of the battle”
  5. Jeremiah 52:25 Literally “those who see the face of the king”
  6. Jeremiah 52:25 Hebrew “man”
  7. Jeremiah 52:26 Hebrew “guards”
  8. Jeremiah 52:29 Hebrew “person”
  9. Jeremiah 52:30 Hebrew “guards”
  10. Jeremiah 52:30 Hebrew “person”
  11. Jeremiah 52:30 Hebrew “person”