23. There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides of the pillars. There was a total of a hundred pomegranates above the net design.
24. The commander of the king’s special guards took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank, and the three doorkeepers.
25. He also took from the city the officer in charge of the soldiers, seven people who advised the king, the royal secretary who selected people for the army, and sixty other men from Judah who were in the city when it fell.
26. Nebuzaradan, the commander, took these people and brought them to the king of Babylon at the town of Riblah.
27. There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them killed.So the people of Judah were led away from their country as captives.
28. This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar took away as captives: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
29. in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;
30. in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, commander of the king’s special guards, took 745 Jews as captives.In all 4,600 people were taken captive.