2. Zedekiah disobeyed the Lord, just as Jehoiakim had done,
3. and it was Zedekiah who finally rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.The people of Judah and Jerusalem had made the Lord so angry that he finally turned his back on them. That's why horrible things were happening.
4. In Zedekiah's ninth year as king, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia led his entire army to attack Jerusalem. The troops set up camp outside the city and built ramps up to the city walls.
26-27. Nebuzaradan led them to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where Nebuchadnezzar had them killed.The people of Judah no longer lived in their own country.
28-30. Here is a list of the number of the people of Judah that Nebuchadnezzar took to Babylonia as prisoners:In his seventh year as king, he took 3,023 people.In his eighteenth year as king, he took 832 from Jerusalem.In his twenty-third year as king, his officer Nebuzaradan took 745 people.So, Nebuchadnezzar took a total of 4,600 people from Judah to Babylonia.