24 Then the captain of the guardb took Seraiah ⌊the chief priest⌋,c and Zephaniah ⌊the second priest⌋,d and three keepers of the threshold. 25 And from the city he took one high official who was chief officer over ⌊the soldiers⌋,e and seven men of ⌊the king’s advisors⌋f 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 meng of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city. 26 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guardh 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 personsi from Jerusalem; 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard,j deported seven hundred and forty-five Judean persons;k there were four thousand six hundred personsl in all.