²⁴ The commander of the guard also took Seraiah the high priest, Zephaniah the deputy priest, and the three doorkeepers. ²⁵ From the city, he took a eunuch who was appointed over the army and the seven royal advisors who remained in the city. He also took the scribe of the commander of the army in charge of military conscription and sixty military personnel^[a] who were found in the city. ²⁶ Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. ²⁷ The king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. And Judah went away from its land into exile.

²⁸ This is the number of people whom Nebuchadnezzar deported: In the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans. ²⁹ In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he took 832 people from Jerusalem. ³⁰ In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, he dispatched Nebuzaradan commander of the guard, who deported 745 Judeans. Altogether, 4,600 were taken captive.