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22 The bronze capital atop one pillar was five cubits high <7.5 ft / 2.3 m>, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar. 23 Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides {ruachah}, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network. 24 The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah (YHWH is ruler) the chief priest, Zephaniah (YHWH has treasured) the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers. 25 Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city. 26 Nebuzaradan (Nebo has given seed) captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon (confusion by mixing) at Riblah (fertility). 27 There at Riblah (fertility) in the land of Hamath (fortress), the king of Babylon (confusion by mixing) struck them down and put them to death. So Judah (praised) was taken into exile, away from its own land. 28 These are the people Nebuchadnezzar (may Nebo protect the crown) carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews; 29 in Nebuchadnezzar’s (may Nebo protect the crown) eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem (city of peace); 30 in Nebuchadnezzar’s (may Nebo protect the crown) twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan (Nebo has given seed) captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews. So in all, 4,600 people were taken away. 31 On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin (YHWH establishes) king of Judah (praised), in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach (man of Merodach) king of Babylon (confusion by mixing), he pardoned \he lifted up the head of/ Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison. 32 And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon (confusion by mixing). 33 So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life. 34 And the king of Babylon (confusion by mixing) provided Jehoiachin a daily portion for the rest of his life, until the day of his death. Jeremiah 52:22-34, Berean Annotated Bible. Public domain.
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