25. From the city he took an officer who had been appointed over the men of war as well as seven men who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city, the scribe of the commander of the army, who enlisted people of the land, and 60 men of the people of the land who were found within the city.
26. Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
27. The king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Then Judah was led away into exile from its land.
28. These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year 3,023 Jews;
29. in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;
30. in the Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard exiled 745 of the Jews—all together 4,600 people.
31. Now it came to pass on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, that King Evil-merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, and released him out of prison.
32. He spoke kindly to him and gave him a throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
33. Then he changed out of his prison garments, dined regularly before him all the days 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, all the days of his life.