27. The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.
28. These are the people Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
29. in his eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;
30. in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, deported 745 Jews. All together 4,600 people were deported.
31. On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.
32. He spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
33. So Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and he dined regularly in the presence of the king of Babylon for the rest of his life.
34. As for his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, for the rest of his life.