Jeremiah 52:28
New International Version
This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

New Living Translation
The number of captives taken to Babylon in the seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign was 3,023.

English Standard Version
This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans;

Berean Standard Bible
These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

King James Bible
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

New King James Version
These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;

New American Standard Bible
These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar took into exile: in the seventh year 3,023 Jews;

NASB 1995
These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away into exile: in the seventh year 3,023 Jews;

NASB 1977
These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away into exile: in the seventh year 3,023 Jews;

Legacy Standard Bible
These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar took away into exile: in the seventh year 3,023 Jews;

Amplified Bible
This is the number of people whom Nebuchadnezzar took captive and exiled: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

Christian Standard Bible
These are the people Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
These are the people Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

American Standard Version
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty;

English Revised Version
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
These are the people Nebuchadnezzar took captive: In his seventh year as king, he took 3,023 Jews.

Good News Translation
This is the record of the people that Nebuchadnezzar took away as prisoners: in his seventh year as king he carried away 3,023;

International Standard Version
These are the people Nebuchadnezzar took into exile: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans;

Majority Standard Bible
These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

NET Bible
Here is the official record of the number of people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

New Heart English Bible
This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews;

Webster's Bible Translation
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

World English Bible
This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Jews;
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
This [is] the people whom Nebuchadnezzar has removed: in the seventh year, of Jews, three thousand and twenty-three;

Young's Literal Translation
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar hath removed: in the seventh year, of Jews, three thousand and twenty and three;

Smith's Literal Translation
This the people which Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and twenty and three.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the people whom Nabuchodonosor carried away captive : in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews.

Catholic Public Domain Version
This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews;

New American Bible
This is the number of people Nebuchadnezzar led away captive: in his seventh year, three thousand twenty-three people of Judah;

New Revised Standard Version
This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took into exile: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Judeans;
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
This is the number of people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive in the seventh year of his reign: three thousand and twenty-three Jews;

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
This is the people that Nebukadnetsar King of Babel took captive in the seventh year of his kingdom: three thousand and twenty and three Judeans
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Captives Carried to Babylon
27There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land. 28These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews; 29in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;…

Cross References
2 Kings 24:14-16
He carried into exile all Jerusalem—all the commanders and mighty men of valor, all the craftsmen and metalsmiths—ten thousand captives in all. Only the poorest people of the land remained. / Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. / The king of Babylon also brought into exile to Babylon all seven thousand men of valor and a thousand craftsmen and metalsmiths—all strong and fit for battle.

2 Kings 25:11-12
Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the population. / But the captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.

2 Chronicles 36:20
Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.

Jeremiah 39:9-10
Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him. / But Nebuzaradan left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who had no property, and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.

Jeremiah 40:1
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

Jeremiah 43:5-6
Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the whole remnant of Judah, those who had returned to the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been scattered, / the men, the women, the children, the king’s daughters, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had allowed to remain with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as well as Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.

Ezekiel 33:21
In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!”

Lamentations 1:3
Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

Lamentations 1:18
The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:9
Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

Daniel 1:1-2
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. / And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.

Matthew 1:11-12
and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon. / After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,

Matthew 24:15-16
So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), / then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Luke 21:20-24
But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near. / Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city. / For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. ...

John 11:48
If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”


Treasury of Scripture

This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

A.

2 Kings 24:2,3,12-16
And 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…

Daniel 1:1-3
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it…

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Jeremiah 52
1. Zedekiah rebels
4. Jerusalem is besieged and taken
8. Zedekiah's sons killed, and his own eyes put out,
12. Nebuzaradan burns and spoils the city
24. He carries away the captives
28. The number of Jews carried captive
31. Evil-Merodach advances Jehoiachin














These are the people
This phrase introduces a specific group of individuals who were directly affected by the Babylonian conquest. The Hebrew word for "people" here is "עַם" (am), which often refers to a community or nation. In this context, it emphasizes the collective identity of the Jews as God's chosen people, who are now experiencing the consequences of their disobedience and the fulfillment of prophetic warnings.

Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar II was the king of Babylon from 605 to 562 BC. His name in Hebrew, "נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר" (Nebuchadnetzar), is often associated with his role as an instrument of God's judgment against Judah. Historically, Nebuchadnezzar is known for his military conquests and the expansion of the Babylonian Empire. His actions, as recorded in the Bible, serve as a reminder of God's sovereignty over nations and rulers.

carried away
The phrase "carried away" is translated from the Hebrew "הִגְלָה" (higlah), meaning to exile or deport. This reflects the historical practice of the Babylonians, who would relocate conquered peoples to prevent rebellion and assimilate them into their empire. Spiritually, this exile represents a period of purification and reflection for the Jewish people, as they are removed from their land and temple, prompting a return to faithfulness and reliance on God.

in the seventh year
This refers to the seventh year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, around 598 BC. The specificity of the timing underscores the precision of God's prophetic word, as Jeremiah had foretold the exile. The seventh year also holds symbolic significance in the Bible, often associated with completion and rest, suggesting a divinely ordained period of judgment and eventual restoration.

3,023 Jews
The number "3,023" is a precise count of those taken into exile, highlighting the historical accuracy and attention to detail in the biblical record. The term "Jews" (יְהוּדִים, Yehudim) identifies the exiles as members of the tribe of Judah, the southern kingdom. This remnant represents the continuity of God's covenant people, even in the midst of judgment, and foreshadows the eventual return and rebuilding of Jerusalem.

(28) This is the people . . .--Here the parallelism with 2 Kings 25, which goes on to give a brief summary of the history of Gedaliah and Ishmael, as narrated in Jeremiah 40-43, ceases, and the writer of the appendix goes on to give particulars as to the various stages of the deportation of the captives. It presents some difficulties in detail. (1) The date given here, the "seventh year" of Nebuchadnezzar, does not agree with 2Kings 24:12, which gives the "eighth year" as the time of the first deportation after the defeat of Jehoiachin. (2) The number of the captives then carried into exile, given in 2Kings 24:14 at 10,000, besides the craftsmen and the smiths, is given here as 3,023. The precision of the number seems to imply reference to a register or record of some kind, and so far bears prima facie evidence of accuracy. Probably the word "ten" has dropped out before "seven," and we have here the record of a second deportation in the seventeenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, while the siege of Jerusalem was going on, and made up in part of prisoners taken in skirmishes, and partly of the numerous Jews who "fell away to the Chaldaeans" (Jeremiah 37:13).

Verse 28. - In the seventh year. As Ewald and Keil agree, we should correct "seventh" into "seventeenth" (just as in 2 Chronicles 36:9, for "eight" we should read "eighteen"). On the small number of Jews deported Ewald remarks, "Nothing so clearly shows the extent to which the best men from the upper classes had been already despatched by the Chaldeans across the Euphrates, as the fact that in all the years of the second, and, if it be insisted on, of the third revolt, put together, they found only 4600 men more whom they thought worth the trouble of transporting" ('History of Israel,' 4:265). As to the third deportation, see on Jeremiah 41:1.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
These
זֶ֣ה (zeh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

are the people
הָעָ֔ם (hā·‘ām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

Nebuchadnezzar
נְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֑ר (nə·ḇū·ḵaḏ·reṣ·ṣar)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5019: Nebuchadnezzar -- 'Nebo, protect the boundary', a Babylonian king

carried away:
הֶגְלָ֖ה (heḡ·lāh)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1540: To denude, to exile, to reveal

in the seventh
שֶׁ֕בַע (še·ḇa‘)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

year,
בִּשְׁנַת־ (biš·naṯ-)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8141: A year

3,023 {}
שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת (šə·lō·šeṯ)
Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7969: Three, third, thrice

Jews;
יְהוּדִ֕ים (yə·hū·ḏîm)
Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 3064: Jews -- Jewish


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