2 Raja-raja 21:14

21:14 I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people ¹  and hand them over to their enemies; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies, ² 

Nehemia 7:6

7:6 These are the people ³  of the province who returned ⁴  from the captivity of the exiles, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had forced into exile. ⁵  They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his own city.

Yeremia 52:28

52:28 Here is the official record of the number of people ⁶  Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year, ⁷  3,023 Jews;

¹ tn Heb “the remnant of my inheritance.” In this context the Lord’s remnant is the tribe of Judah, which had been preserved when the Assyrians conquered and deported the northern tribes. See 17:18 and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 269.

² tn Heb “they will become plunder and spoils of war for all their enemies.”

³ tn Heb “the sons of”; KJV, ASV “the children of”; NAB “the inhabitants of.”

⁴ tn Heb “who were going up.”

⁵ tc One medieval Hebrew manuscript has “to Babylon.” Cf. Ezra 2:1.

⁶ tn Heb “these are the people.”

⁷ sn This would be 597 b.c.