14 And he took into exile+ all Jerusalem and all the princes+ and all the valiant, mighty+ men—ten thousand he was taking into exile—and also every craftsman+ and builder of bulwarks. No one had been left behind except the lowly class+ of the people of the land.

24 And Jehovah showed me, and, look! two baskets of figs set before the temple of Jehovah, after Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon had carried into exile Jec·o·niʹah*+ the son of Je·hoiʹa·kim,+ the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah and the craftsmen+ and the builders of bulwarks, from Jerusalem that he might bring them to Babylon.+

29 And these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the remainder of the older men of the exiled people and to the priests and to the prophets and to all the people, whom Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon,+

3 Then the king said to Ashʹpe·naz his chief court official*+ to bring some of the sons of Israel and of the royal offspring* and of the nobles,+