When they ask you where they should go, tell them that I have said: Some are doomed to die by disease--- that's where they will go! Others are doomed to die in war--- that's where they will go! Some are doomed to die of starvation--- that's where they will go! Others are doomed to be taken away as prisoners--- that's where they will go!

Then Nebuzaradan took away to Babylonia the people who were left in the city, the remaining skilled workers, and those who had deserted to the Babylonians.

This is the record of the people that Nebuchadnezzar took away as prisoners: in his seventh year as king he carried away 3,023;

and in his twenty-third year, 745---taken away by Nebuzaradan. In all, 4,600 people were taken away.