²⁴ The commander of the king’s special guards took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank, and the three doorkeepers. ²⁵ He also took from the city the officer in charge of the soldiers, seven people ·who advised the king [of the king’s council], the ·royal secretary [scribe] who selected people for the army, and sixty other men from Judah who were in the city when it fell. ²⁶ Nebuzaradan, the commander, took these people and brought them to the king of Babylon at the town of Riblah. ²⁷ There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them killed.

So the people of Judah were led away from their country as ·captives [exiles]. ²⁸ This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar took away as ·captives [exiles]: in the seventh year [^C597 bc], 3,023 ·Jews [^LJudeans]; ²⁹ in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year [^C586 bc], 832 people from Jerusalem; ³⁰ in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year [^C582 bc], Nebuzaradan, commander of the king’s special guards, took 745 ·Jews [^LJudeans] as ·captives [exiles].

In all 4,600 people were ·taken captive [exiled].