The principal scribe of the host] RV 'the scribe of the captain of the host.'

28-30. This passage seems to have been taken by the compiler from a separate document. For seventh we should probably read 'seventeenth,' corresponding to Zedekiah's tenth year, while the siege was going on. Thus this captivity would consist chiefly of people from the country parts. The next, i.e. Nebuchadnezzar's eighteenth year, was that with which this chapter deals. Of the deportation of his three and twentieth year we have no other mention.

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