ESV Reformation Study Bible – 2 Kgs 24:14
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2 Kgs 24:14

24:14 10,000 captives. Jer. 52:28 gives a figure of “3,023” deportees, but that may not include women and children.

except the poorest. The Babylonians deported the upper classes and leaders from captured lands. In this way they crippled the economies of those societies.