27. who had them struck down and executed in Riblah, in the land of Hamath.Thus Judah was exiled from the land.
28. This is the number of people Nebuchadnezzar led away captive: in his seventh year, three thousand twenty-three people of Judah;
29. in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred thirty-two persons from Jerusalem;
30. in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, deported seven hundred forty-five Judahites: four thousand six hundred persons in all.
31. In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the inaugural year of his reign, raised up Jehoiachin, king of Judah, and released him from prison.
32. He spoke kindly to him and gave him a throne higher than the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
33. Jehoiachin took off his prison garb and ate at the king’s table as long as he lived.
34. The allowance given him by the king of Babylon was a perpetual allowance, in fixed daily amounts, all the days of his life until the day of his death.