27The king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was taken into exile from its land.
28This is the number of people whom Nebuchadnezzar exiled: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
29in Nebuchadnezzar's eighteenth year, 832 people were exiled from Jerusalem;
30and in his twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, exiled 745 Jews. In total, 4,600 people were taken away.
31In the thirty-seventh year of Jehoiachin’s exile, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, showed favor to Jehoiachin, king of Judah, and released him from prison.
32He spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the thrones of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
33Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes and regularly ate at the king’s table for the rest of his life.