³ and ^(A)have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.

²⁸ This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: ^(A)in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans; ^29 (B)in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem 832 persons; ³⁰ in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Judeans 745 persons; all the persons were 4,600.

^11 (A)And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile.

Jerusalem Captured

¹⁰ At that time the servants of ^(A)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. ¹¹ And ^(B)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it, ^12 (C)and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. ^(D)The king of Babylon took him prisoner ^(E)in the eighth year of his reign ¹³ and carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord ^(F)and the treasures of the king's house, ^(G)and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, ^(H)which Solomon king of Israel had made, ^(I)as the Lord had foretold. ^14 (J)He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, ^(K)10,000 captives, ^(L)and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, ^(M)except the poorest people of the land. ^15 (N)And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king's mother, the king's wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. ¹⁶ And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, ^(O)7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war.