2 Kings 25:18

25:18 The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah, the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers.

2 Kings 25:21

25:21 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed ¹  at Riblah in the territory ²  of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.

2 Kings 25:2

25:2 The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

2 Kings 1:17

1:17 He died just as the Lord had prophesied through Elijah. ³  In the second year of the reign of King Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah, Ahaziah’s brother Jehoram replaced him as king of Israel, because he had no son. ⁴ 

Jeremiah 39:9

39:9 Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, ⁵  took captive the rest of the people who were left in the city. He carried them off to Babylon along with the people who had deserted to him. ⁶ 

Jeremiah 52:12-15

52:12 On the tenth ⁷  day of the fifth month, ⁸  in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard ⁹  who served ¹⁰  the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem. 52:13 He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house. 52:14 The whole Babylonian army that came with the captain of the royal guard tore down the walls that surrounded Jerusalem. 52:15 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took into exile some of the poor, ¹¹  the rest of the people who remained in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the rest of the craftsmen.

Jeremiah 52:28

52:28 Here is the official record of the number of people ¹²  Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year, ¹³  3,023 Jews;

[25:21]  ¹ tn Heb “struck them down and killed them.”

[25:21]  ² tn Heb “land.”

[1:17]  ³ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke through Elijah.”

[1:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “Jehoram replaced him as king…because he had no son.” Some ancient textual witnesses add “his brother,” which was likely added on the basis of the statement later in the verse that Ahaziah had no son.

[39:9]  ⁵ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[39:9]  ⁶ tc The translation is based on an emendation of the text which leaves out “the rest of the people who were left” as a double writing of the same phrase at the beginning of the verse. Some commentators emend the phrase “the rest of the people who were left” (הַנִּשְׁאָרִים וְאֶת יֶתֶר הָעָם, hannish’arim vÿ’et yeter ha’am) to read “the rest of the craftsmen who were left” (וְאֶת יֶתֶר הָאָמוֹן הַנִּשְׁאָרִים, vÿ’et yeter ha’amon hannish’arim) on the basis of the parallel in Jer 52:15 (which does not have הַנִּשְׁאָרִים, hannish’arim). However, it is easier to explain the phrase as a dittography of the phrase at the beginning (which is exactly the same except הָעִיר [ha’ir] follows it). The text is redundant because it refers twice to the same group of people. The Hebrew text reads: “And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to him and the rest of the people Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, carried into exile to Babylon.” The text has also been divided up to create two shorter sentences to better conform with contemporary English style.

[52:12]  ⁷ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:8 has “seventh.”

[52:12]  ⁸ sn The tenth day of the month would have been August 17, 586 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:12]  ⁹ tn For the meaning of this phrase see BDB 371 s.v. טַבָּח 2 and compare the usage in Gen 39:1.

[52:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “stood before.”

[52:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “poor of the people.”

[52:28]  ¹² tn Heb “these are the people.”

[52:28]  ¹³ sn This would be 597 b.c.