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.