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Jeremiah 52:29
in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records this deportation during the chronological accounting of Judah’s exiles under Babylonian rule. The text marks the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign as the moment when a specific group was removed from Jerusalem.
The words — The text uses נֶ֕פֶשׁ (Ne.fesh), literally “person” or “life,” to quantify the exiles, paired with the numeral שְמֹנֶ֥ה מֵא֖וֹת (she.mo.Neh me.'ot), meaning “eight hundred.”
The thread — This entry functions as the middle item in a three-part census of Judah’s deportations, bracketed by Jeremiah 52:28 (3,023 in the seventh year) and Jeremiah 52:30 (745 in the twenty-third year). The cumulative total of 4,600 is explicitly calculated in Jeremiah 52:30.
Why it lands — The verse demands a reader to recognize the precise, bureaucratic documentation of Judah’s displacement. It requires acknowledging that the historical record tracks the systematic dismantling of Jerusalem’s population across multiple reign years.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
Cross-references
- Genesis 12:5 And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
- Jeremiah 52:12 On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
- Exodus 1:5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
- 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.
- 2 Chronicles 36:20 Those 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.
- Jeremiah 39:9 Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.