Jeremiah 52:28
in Jeremiah 52These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty;
KJV
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 verse in Jeremiah 52
Commentary
5 notes on this verseOn these verses Dr. Blayney has some sensible remarks; I will extract the substance. These verses are not inserted in 2 Kings 25. Are we to conclude from these verses that the whole number of the Jews which Nebuchadnezzar, in all his expeditions, carried away, was no more than four thousand six hundred? This cannot be true; for he carried away more than twice that number at one time and this is expressly said to have been in the eighth year of his reign, 2Ki 24:12-
This site's exposition
in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty
on Jeremiah 52:28-30
Three deportations are counted by regnal year, 3,023 in the seventh year, 832 in the eighteenth, 745 in the twenty-third, a total of 4,600, a smaller figure than 2 Kings 24:14's 10,000 for the earlier deportation under Jehoiachin. The commentators hold the difference open rather than resolving it: some read a different regnal-year reckoning, an accession-year count here shifting the numbering against Kings, others read this list as counting adult males alone against a broader figure there; the text itself does not choose between them. Either way the number is strikingly small measured against the size of the catastrophe, a whole nation's fall counted in a few thousand names.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive in the seventh year,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
seventh year--in 2Ki 24:12, 14, 16, it is said "the eighth year" of Nebuchadnezzar. No doubt it was in part about the end of the seventh year, in part about the beginning of the eighth.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — starts-lowercase
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Seventh year - The suggestion is now generally received, that the word ten has dropped out before seven, and that the deportations mentioned here are all connected with the final war against Zedekiah. The calculation of Nebuchadnezzars reign is different from that used elsewhere, showing that the writer had access to a document not known to the compiler of the Book of Kings. In each date there is a difference of one year. The Septuagint omits Jer 52:28-30. The number of the exiles carried away is small compared with the 42,360 men who returned Ezr 2:64-65, leaving a large Jewish population behind at Babylon. But a continual drain of people from Judaea was going on, and the 10,000 carried away with Jehoiachin formed the nucleus and center, and gave tone to the whole (see 2Ki 24:14). When they began to thrive in Babylon, large numbers would emigrate there of their own accord. A comparison of this chapter with the parallel portion of 2 Kings shows that though not free from clerical errors and mistakes of copyists the body of the text is remarkably sound. Many of the differences between the two texts are abbreviations made purposely by the compiler of the Book of Kings; others are the result of negligence; and upon the whole the text of the Book of Kings is inferior to that of the Appendix to the Book of Jeremiah. Bearing in mind, however, that possibly they are not two transcripts of the same text, but the result of an independent use by two different writers of the same original authority, their complete agreement, except in trivial matters and mistakes easy of correction, is a satisfactory proof of the general trust-worthiness of the Masoretic Text in all more important particulars.
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| זֶ֣ה | zeh | this | H2088 → | 1180 times |
| הָעָ֔ם | haam | [is] the people | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֥ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| הֶגְלָ֖ה | heglah | he took into exile | H1540 → | 186 times |
| נְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֑ר | nevukhadretzar | Nebuchadnezzar | H5019 → | 60 times |
| בִּשְׁנַת־ | bishnat- | in year | H8141 → | 877 times |
| שֶׁ֕בַע | sheva' | seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| יְהוּדִ֕ים | yehudim | Jews | H3064 → | 75 times |
| שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁת | sheloshet | three | H7969 → | 432 times |
| אֲלָפִ֖ים | ʾalafim | thousand<s> | H505 → | 505 times |
| וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים | veesrim | and twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ | usheloshah | and three | H7969 → | 432 times |
זֶ֣הthis
zehH2088 →1180 times
הָעָ֔ם[is] the people
haamH5971 →1873 times
אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
הֶגְלָ֖הhe took into exile
heglahH1540 →186 times
נְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֑רNebuchadnezzar
nevukhadretzarH5019 →60 times
בִּשְׁנַת־in year
bishnat-H8141 →877 times
שֶׁ֕בַעseven
sheva'H7651 →394 times
יְהוּדִ֕יםJews
yehudimH3064 →75 times
שְׁלֹ֥שֶׁתthree
sheloshetH7969 →432 times
אֲלָפִ֖יםthousand<s>
ʾalafimH505 →505 times
וְעֶשְׂרִ֥יםand twenty
veesrimH6242 →315 times
וּשְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃and three
usheloshahH7969 →432 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Chronicles 36:20Those 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.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 27:7
All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.
- Ezra 1:1–11
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout…
- Deuteronomy 28:47–48
Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
- 2 Chronicles 36:22
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout…
- 2 Kings 25:11
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.
- Jeremiah 27:7
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About Jeremiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).