23 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; aall the pomegranates, all around on the network, were one hundred.
The People Taken Captive to Babylonia
24 aThe captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, bZephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.
25 He also took out of the city an1 officer who had charge of the men of war, seven men of the king’s close associates who were found in the city, the principal scribe of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.
26 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
27 Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land.
28 aThese are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: bin the seventh year, cthree thousand and twenty-three Jews;
29 ain the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons;
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