This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
Parallel translations
- WEB This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews;
- BSB These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
- NKJV These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;
- NASB These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar took into exile: in the seventh year 3,023 Jews;
- NLT The number of captives taken to Babylon in the seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign was 3,023.
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Quick answer
This verse begins a tally of deportations, listing 3,023 Jews carried off in Nebuchadnezzar's seventh year. It records the precise number of the first major exile.
Overview
These exile counts provide a sober, factual ledger of the judgment, emphasizing that real people were carried from their homes. The specific figures underscore the historical reliability of the account and the exactness of God's fulfilled word. Behind the numbers stand individuals whom God did not forget, for He preserved His people in exile to bring forth the Messiah in due time.
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Cross-references · 4
- 2 Kgs 24:2–3And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
- Dan 1:1–3In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
- 2 Kgs 24:12–16And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
- 2 Chr 36:20And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
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