For this is what the Lord says: ‘Behold, I am going to make you a (A)horror to yourself and to all your friends; and while (B)your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies. So I will (C)hand all Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will take them away as (D)exiles to Babylon and will kill them with the sword.

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For this is what the Lord says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; with your own eyes(A) you will see them fall by the sword of their enemies. I will give(B) all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, who will carry(C) them away to Babylon or put them to the sword.

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27 Then the king of Babylon (A)struck them and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was (B)led into exile from its land.

28 These are the people whom (C)Nebuchadnezzar took into exile: in the [a]seventh year 3,023 Jews; 29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar 832 persons from Jerusalem; 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, (D)Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took into exile 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 people in all.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:28 Or possibly seventeenth

27 There at Riblah,(A) in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.

So Judah went into captivity, away(B) from her land. 28 This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile:(C)

in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

29 in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year,

832 people from Jerusalem;

30 in his twenty-third year,

745 Jews taken into exile(D) by Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard.

There were 4,600 people in all.(E)

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