23. On the grating of each column there were a hundred pomegranates in all, and 96 of these were visible from the ground.
24. In addition, Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, took away as prisoners Seraiah the High Priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank, and the three other important temple officials.
25. From the city he took the officer who had been in command of the troops, seven of the king's personal advisers who were still in the city, the commander's assistant, who was in charge of military records, and sixty other important men.
26. Nebuzaradan took them to the king of Babylonia, who was in the city of Riblah
27. in the territory of Hamath. There the king had them beaten and put to death.So the people of Judah were carried away from their land into exile.
28. This is the record of the people that Nebuchadnezzar took away as prisoners: in his seventh year as king he carried away 3,023;