20. The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands, which King Solomon had made for the temple of the Lord, was more than could be weighed.
21. Each pillar was eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference; each was four fingers thick, and hollow.
22. The bronze capital on the top of one pillar was five cubits high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar.
23. There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; the total number of pomegranates above the surrounding network was a hundred.
24. The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers.
25. Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and seven royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land, sixty of whom were found in the city.
26. Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
27. There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.So Judah went into captivity, away from her land.
28. This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile:in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
29. in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year,832 people from Jerusalem;
30. in his twenty-third year,745 Jews taken into exile by Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard.There were 4,600 people in all.
31. In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah and freed him from prison.
32. He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honour higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
33. So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king’s table.