²⁵ He also took from the city an officer who had been in command of the soldiers, seven members of the king’s council who were discovered in the city, the secretary of the army commander who mustered the people of the land, and sixty of the common people who had not departed from the city.

²⁶ Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, arrested these men and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. ²⁷ There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon ordered them to be executed. Thus Judah went into captivity after being deported from its own land.