52 ²⁴ And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold; 52 ²⁵ and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and seven men of the king's council, who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city. 52 ²⁶ And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. 52 ²⁷ And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried captive out of its land.

52 ²⁸ This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews; 52 ²⁹ in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons; 52 ³⁰ in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five persons; all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

52 ³¹ And in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison; 52 ³² and he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon. 52 ³³ So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king's table; 52 ³⁴ as for his allowance, a regualar allowance was given him by the king according to his daily need, until the day of his death as long as he lived.