28. This is the number of people whom Nebuchadnezzar deported: In the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans.
29. In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he took 832 people from Jerusalem.
30. In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, he dispatched Nebuzaradan commander of the guard, who deported 745 Judeans. Altogether, 4,600 were taken captive.
31. Judah’s King Jehoiachin had been in exile for thirty-seven years when Awil-merodach became king in Babylon. He took note of Jehoiachin’s plight and released him from prison on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of that very year.
32. Awil-merodach treated Jehoiachin kindly and gave him a throne higher than those of the other kings with him in Babylon.