Jeremiah 52:28-30

Enumeration of Nebuchadnezzar's captives

28. in the seventh year These vv. are absent from the LXX and from 2 Kings 25 and apparently come out of a separate document from the rest. For "seventh" we should read seventeenth, for in Jehoiachin's captivity the number was far greater than is here specified (2 Kings 24:14; 2 Kings 24:16). Thus the firstdeportation would consist of the men of Judah taken prisoners outside Jerusalem in the first year of the siege (Jeremiah 39:1), the second(Jeremiah 52:29) of those carried captive "from Jerusalem" itself, but not including those taken into exile after the capture of the city. Of the thirdoccurring some years later we have no other clear account, though we know from Josephus (Ant. X. ix. 7) that Nebuchadnezzar in his 23rd year carried on considerable warlike operations in the direction of Palestine and in Egypt, carrying off Jews from that country to Babylon.