24. Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and three keepers of the threshold.
25. And from the city he took one high official who was chief officer over the soldiers, and seven men of the king’s advisors 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 men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.
26. Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard 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 persons from Jerusalem;
30. in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, deported seven hundred and forty-five Judean persons; there were four thousand six hundred persons in all.
31. And then in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach, the king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, and brought him out from prison.
32. Then he spoke with him kindly and gave his seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
33. So he changed the garments of his imprisonment and he ate food before him continually all the days of his life.