² If they ask you, ‘Where will we go?’ tell them: This is what the Lord says:

¹⁵ Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, deported some of the poorest of the people, as well as the rest of the people who remained in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen.

²⁸ These are the people Nebuchadnezzar deported:^(A) in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews; ²⁹ in his eighteenth year,^[a] 832 people from Jerusalem; ³⁰ in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, deported 745 Jews. Altogether, 4,600 people were deported.