Jeremiah Chapter 52 verse 28 Holy Bible
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty;
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These are the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took away prisoner: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews:
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This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand and twenty-three Jews;
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This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
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This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews;
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This `is' the people whom Nebuchadrezzar hath removed: in the seventh year, of Jews, three thousand and twenty and three;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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).
