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Jeremiah 52:28

This is how many people Nebuchadnezzar carried into captivity: In Nebuchadnezzar's 7th year as king of Babylon, 3023 people were taken from Judah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Captivity;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Month;   Nebuzaradan (Nebuzar-Adan);   Zedekiah;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nebuzaradan;   Zedekiah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Exile;   Jehoiachin;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Jehoiachin;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Babylon, History and Religion of;   Exile;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Lance, Lancet;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Nebuzaradan ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Captivity;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Nebuchadnezzar;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
These are the people Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
Hebrew Names Version
This is the people whom Nevukhadretztzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Yehudim;
King James Version
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
English Standard Version
This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans;
New American Standard Bible
These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar took into exile: in the seventh year 3,023 Jews;
New Century Version
This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar took away as captives: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
Amplified Bible
This is the number of people whom Nebuchadnezzar took captive and exiled: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
World English Bible
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews;
Geneva Bible (1587)
This is the people, whome Nebuchad-nezzar caried away captiue, in the seuenth yeere, euen three thousande Iewes, and three and twentie.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away into exile: in the seventh year 3,023 Jews;
Legacy Standard Bible
These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar took away into exile: in the seventh year 3,023 Jews;
Berean Standard Bible
These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
Contemporary English Version
Here is a list of the number of the people of Judah that Nebuchadnezzar took to Babylonia as prisoners: In his seventh year as king, he took 3,023 people. In his eighteenth year as king, he took 832 from Jerusalem. In his twenty-third year as king, his officer Nebuzaradan took 745 people. So, Nebuchadnezzar took a total of 4,600 people from Judah to Babylonia.
Complete Jewish Bible
The numbers of people deported by N'vukhadretzar were as follows: in the seventh year, 3,023 persons from Y'hudah;
Darby Translation
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand and twenty-three Jews;
George Lamsa Translation
This is the number of people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive in the seventh year of his reign: three thousand and twenty-three Jews;
Good News Translation
This is the record of the people that Nebuchadnezzar took away as prisoners: in his seventh year as king he carried away 3,023;
Lexham English Bible
This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Judeans;
Literal Translation
This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar exiled: In the seventh year, three thousand and twenty three Jews;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This is the summe of the people, whom Nabuchodonosor ledde awaye captyue. In the seuenth yeare of his reigne, he caried awaye of ye Iewes, thre thousande thre and twenty.
American Standard Version
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty;
Bible in Basic English
These are the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took away prisoner: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty;
King James Version (1611)
This is the people whom Nebuchad-rezzar caried away captiue in the seuenth yeere, three thousand Iewes and three and twentie.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
This is the summe of the people whom Nabuchodonozor led away captiue: in the seuenth yere of his raigne he caryed away of the Iewes three thousande twentie and three,
English Revised Version
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This is the puple, whom Nabugodonosor translatide in the seuenthe yeer; Jewis, thre thousynde and thre and twenti.
Update Bible Version
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty;
Webster's Bible Translation
This [is] the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
New English Translation
Here is the official record of the number of people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
New King James Version
These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;
New Living Translation
The number of captives taken to Babylon in the seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign was 3,023.
New Life Bible
These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away to Babylon: In the seventh year he took 3,023 Jews.
New Revised Standard
This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took into exile: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Judeans;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, is the people, whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive, - In the seventh year - of them of Judah, three thousand and twenty-three;
Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the people whom Nabuchodonosor carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews.
Revised Standard Version
This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadrez'zar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;
Young's Literal Translation
This [is] the people whom Nebuchadrezzar hath removed: in the seventh year, of Jews, three thousand and twenty and three;
THE MESSAGE
3,023 men of Judah were taken into exile by Nebuchadnezzar in the seventh year of his reign.

Contextual Overview

24 The commander of the king's special guards took Seraiah the high priest and Zephaniah the next highest priest as prisoners. The three doorkeepers were also taken as prisoners. 25 The commander of the king's special guards also took the officer in charge of the fighting men. He also took seven of the king's advisors as prisoners. They were still there in Jerusalem. He also took the scribe who was in charge of putting people in the army. And he took 60 of the ordinary people who were there in the city. 26Nebuzaradan, the commander, took all these officials and brought them to the king of Babylon. The king of Babylon was at the city of Riblah. Riblah is in the country of Hamath. There at the city of Riblah, the king ordered all of them to be killed. So the people of Judah were taken from their country. 28 This is how many people Nebuchadnezzar carried into captivity: In Nebuchadnezzar's 7th year as king of Babylon, 3023 people were taken from Judah. 29 In Nebuchadnezzar's 18th year as king of Babylon, 832 people were taken from Jerusalem. 30 In Nebuchadnezzar's 23rd year as king, Nebuzaradan took 745 people of Judah into captivity. Nebuzaradan was the commander of the king's special guards. In all, 4600 people were taken captive.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3404, bc 600

in the: 2 Kings 24:2, 2 Kings 24:3, 2 Kings 24:12-16, Daniel 1:1-3

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:62 - few in number 2 Kings 24:14 - Jerusalem 2 Kings 24:16 - seven thousand 1 Chronicles 6:15 - when the Lord Isaiah 6:12 - the Lord Jeremiah 6:9 - They shall Jeremiah 39:9 - carried Ezekiel 12:11 - remove and go Obadiah 1:11 - in the day that the Matthew 1:11 - about

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This [is] the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive in the seventh year,.... That is, of his reign: in 2 Kings 24:12; it is said to be in the eighth year of his reign; it being at the latter end of the seventh, and the beginning of the eighth, as Kimchi observes; this was the captivity of Jeconiah: the number of the captives then were

three thousand Jews, and three and twenty; but in 2 Kings 24:14; they are said to be ten thousand; which may be reconciled thus, there were three thousand twenty and three of the tribe of Judah, here called Jews; and the rest were of the tribe of Benjamin, and of the ten tribes that were mixed among them; see 2 Kings 24:16.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Seventh year - The suggestion is now generally received, that the word ten has dropped out before seven, and that the deportations mentioned here are all connected with the final war against Zedekiah. The calculation of Nebuchadnezzars reign is different from that used elsewhere, showing that the writer had access to a document not known to the compiler of the Book of Kings. In each date there is a difference of one year. The Septuagint omits Jeremiah 52:28-30.

The number of the exiles carried away is small compared with the 42,360 men who returned Ezra 2:64-65, leaving a large Jewish population behind at Babylon. But a continual drain of people from Judaea was going on, and the 10,000 carried away with Jehoiachin formed the nucleus and center, and gave tone to the whole (see 2 Kings 24:14). When they began to thrive in Babylon, large numbers would emigrate there of their own accord.

A comparison of this chapter with the parallel portion of 2 Kings shows that though not free from clerical errors and mistakes of copyists the body of the text is remarkably sound. Many of the differences between the two texts are abbreviations made purposely by the compiler of the Book of Kings; others are the result of negligence; and upon the whole the text of the Book of Kings is inferior to that of the Appendix to the Book of Jeremiah. Bearing in mind, however, that possibly they are not two transcripts of the same text, but the result of an independent use by two different writers of the same original authority, their complete agreement, except in trivial matters and mistakes easy of correction, is a satisfactory proof of the general trust-worthiness of the Masoretic Text in all more important particulars.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 52:28-30. On these verses Dr. Blayney has some sensible remarks; I will extract the substance. These verses are not inserted in 2 Kings xxv. Are we to conclude from these verses that the whole number of the Jews which Nebuchadnezzar, in all his expeditions, carried away, was no more than four thousand six hundred? This cannot be true; for he carried away more than twice that number at one time and this is expressly said to have been in the eighth year of his reign, 2 Kings 24:12-16. Before that time he had carried off a number of captives from Jerusalem, in the first year of his reign, among whom were Daniel and his companions, Daniel 1:3-6. These are confessedly not noticed here. And as the taking and burning of Jerusalem is in this very chapter said to have been in the fourth and fifth months of the nineteenth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, those who were carried into captivity at the date of those events cannot possibly be the same with those that are said to be carried away either in the eighteenth or twenty-third year of that prince. Nor, indeed, is it credible that the number carried away at the time that the city was taken, and the whole country reduced, could be so few as eight hundred and thirty-two, (see Jeremiah 52:29;) supposing a mistake in the date of the year, which some are willing to do without sufficient grounds.

Here then we have three deportations, and those the most considerable ones, in the first, in the eighth, and nineteenth years of Nebuchadnezzar, sufficiently distinguished from those in the seventh, eighteenth, and twenty-third years. So that it seems most reasonable to conclude with Abp. Usher, in Chronologia Sacra, that by the latter three the historian meant to point out deportations of a minor kind, not elsewhere noticed in direct terms in Scripture.

The first of these, said to have been in the seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar, was one of those that had been picked up in several parts of Judah by the band of Chaldeans, Syrians, and others, whom the king of Babylon sent against the land previously to his own coming, 2 Kings 24:2.

That in the eighteenth year corresponds with the time when the Chaldean army broke off the siege before Jerusalem, and marched to meet the Egyptian army, at which time they might think it proper to send off the prisoners that were in camp, under a guard to Babylon.

And the last, in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, was when that monarch, being engaged in the siege of Tyre, sent off Nebuzaradan against the Moabites, Ammonites, and other neighbouring nations, who at the same time carried away the gleanings of Jews that remained in their own land, amounting in all to no more than seven hundred and forty-five.

Josephus speaks of this expedition against the Moabites and Ammonites, which he places in the twenty-third year or Nebuchadnezzar; but mentions nothing done in the land of Israel at that time. Only he says that after the conquest of those nations, Nebuchadnezzar carried his victorious arms against Egypt, which he in some measure reduced, and carried the Jews whom he found there captives to Babylon. But the Egyptian expedition was not till the twenty-seventh year of Jehoiachin's captivity, i.e., the thirty-fifth of Nebuchadnezzar, as may be collected from Ezekiel 29:17; so that those who were carried away in the twenty-third year were not from Egypt, but were, as before observed, the few Jews that remained in the land of Judah.


 
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