Jeremiah 52:30

30 In Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year he sent Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, who took 745 more—a total of 4,600 captives in all.

Jeremiah 52:30 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 52:30

In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar
In this year of his reign, the Jews say ^F13, Tyre was delivered into his hands; and he carried off the Jews in Moab, Ammon, and the neighbouring nations, to the number after mentioned; though some think these were the poor people of the land he took from thence, after the murder of Gedaliah, and in revenge of that: Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven
hundred forty and five persons;
all which being put together make the following sum: all the persons [were] four thousand and six hundred;
this is the sum total of the three mentioned captivities.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 26. p. 77.

Jeremiah 52:30 In-Context

28 The number of captives taken to Babylon in the seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign was 3,023.

29 Then in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year he took 832 more.

30 In Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year he sent Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, who took 745 more—a total of 4,600 captives in all.

31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, Evil-merodach ascended to the Babylonian throne. He was kind to Jehoiachin and released him from prison on March 31 of that year.

32 He spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and gave him a higher place than all the other exiled kings in Babylon.

Footnotes

• [a]. This exile in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign occurred in 581