24 The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah(A) the chief priest, Zephaniah(B) the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers.(C) 25 Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and seven royal advisers. He also took the secretary(D) who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land, sixty of whom were found in the city. 26 Nebuzaradan(E) the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 27 There at Riblah,(F) in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.

So Judah went into captivity, away(G) from her land. 28 This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile:(H)

in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

29 in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year,

832 people from Jerusalem;

30 in his twenty-third year,

745 Jews taken into exile(I) by Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard.

There were 4,600 people in all.(J)

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24 Then the captain of the guard took (A)Seraiah the chief priest and (B)Zephaniah the second priest, with the three [a](C)officers of the temple. 25 He also took from the city one official who was overseer of the warriors, seven [b]of the (D)king’s advisers who were found in the city, the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land who were found inside the city. 26 Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguards took them and (E)brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 27 Then the king of Babylon (F)struck them and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was (G)led into exile from its land.

28 These are the people whom (H)Nebuchadnezzar took into exile: in the [c]seventh year 3,023 Jews; 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar 832 persons from Jerusalem; 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, (I)Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took into exile 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 people in all.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:24 Lit keepers of the door
  2. Jeremiah 52:25 Lit men of those seeing the king’s face
  3. Jeremiah 52:28 Or possibly seventeenth