²⁹ Why do you ^(A)kick at My sacrifice and at My offering ^(B)which I have commanded in My ^(C)dwelling, and ^(D)honor your sons above Me, by making yourselves fat with the ^[a]choicest of every offering of My people Israel?’ ³⁰ Therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, ‘^(E)I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before Me forever’; but now the Lord declares, ‘Far be it from Me—for ^(F)those who honor Me I will honor, and those ^(G)who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.

²⁴ Then the captain of the guard took ^(A)Seraiah the chief priest and ^(B)Zephaniah the second priest, with the three ^[a](C)officers of the temple. ²⁵ He also took from the city one official who was overseer of the men of war, and seven ^[b]of the ^(D)king’s advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city. ²⁶ Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and ^(E)brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. ²⁷ Then the king of Babylon ^(F)struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was ^(G)led away into exile from its land.