27. The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.
28. These are the people Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
29. in his eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;
30. in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, deported 745 Jews. All together 4,600 people were deported.
31. On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.