18
The commander of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank, and the three doorkeepers.
19
Of those still left in the city, Nebuzaradan took away an officer who was in charge of the army and five royal advisors who were discovered in the city. He also took away the secretary of the officer responsible for drafting the land's people to fight, as well as sixty people who were discovered in the city.
20
Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard took all of these people and brought them to the Babylonian king at Riblah.
21
The king of Babylon struck them down, killing them in Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was exiled from its land.
22
Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar put Gedaliah, Ahikam's son and Shaphan's grandson, in charge of the people he had left behind in the land of Judah.