23. There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around.
24. The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
25. and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the middle of the city.
26. Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
27. The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath.So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
28. This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive:in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;
29. in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons;
30. in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five people:all the people were four thousand and six hundred.
31. In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison.
32. He spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
33. and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life.
34. For his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.