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26 Nebuzaradan the king's deputy marched them all off to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
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Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
27 And there at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon killed the lot of them in cold blood. Judah went into exile, orphaned from her land.
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There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed. So Judah went into captivity, away from her land.
28 3,023 men of Judah were taken into exile by Nebuchadnezzar in the seventh year of his reign.
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This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
29 832 from Jerusalem were taken in the eighteenth year of his reign.
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in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;
30 745 men from Judah were taken off by Nebuzaradan, the king's chief deputy, in Nebuchadnezzar's twenty-third year. The total number of exiles was 4,600.
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in his twenty-third year, 745 Jews taken into exile by Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard. There were 4,600 people in all.
31 When Jehoiachin king of Judah had been in exile for thirty-seven years, Evil-Merodach became king in Babylon and let Jehoiachin out of prison. This release took place on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month.
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In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah and freed him from prison.
32 The king treated him most courteously and gave him preferential treatment beyond anything experienced by the political prisoners held in Babylon.
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He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
33 Jehoiachin took off his prison garb and from then on ate his meals in company with the king.
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So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king’s table.
34 The king provided everything he needed to live comfortably for the rest of his life.
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Day by day the king of Babylon gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived, till the day of his death.
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