19. Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and five royal advisors. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land and sixty of the conscripts who were found in the city.
20. Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
21. There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.So Judah went into captivity, away from her land.
22. Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to be over the people he had left behind in Judah.