⁴ For this is what the Lord says: ‘Behold, I am going to make you a ^(A)horror to yourself and to all your friends; and while ^(B)your eyes look on, they will fall by the sword of their enemies. So I will ^(C)hand all Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will take them away as ^(D)exiles to Babylon and will kill them with the sword.

²⁷ Then the king of Babylon ^(A)struck them and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was ^(B)led into exile from its land.

²⁸ These are the people whom ^(C)Nebuchadnezzar took into exile: in the ^[a]seventh year 3,023 Jews; ²⁹ in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar 832 persons from Jerusalem; ³⁰ in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, ^(D)Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took into exile 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 people in all.