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27 There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon ordered them to be executed. Thus Judah went into captivity after being deported from its own land.

28 [a]This is the number of people whom Nebuchadnezzar led away into exile: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Judeans; 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred and thirty-two people were deported from Jerusalem;

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:28 This piece of information, which is dated according to the Babylonian calendar, shows that a third deportation was added to those of 599 and 587 B.C. The figures, which are doubtless incomplete, do not correspond to those in 2 Ki 24:14-16 and do not agree given the total number of deportees.