Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 52:30
In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons [were] four thousand and six hundred.
Verse 30. See Clarke on Jer 52:28.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Of this we read nothing in holy writ; some judge it to have been upon occasion of Ishmaels killing Gedaliah, but this was four years after the taking of the city, and we are not certain what at this time brought again the Chaldean forces.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
30. Not recorded in Kings orChronicles. Probably it took place during the commotions thatfollowed the death of Gedaliah (Jer 41:18;2Ki 25:26).
four thousand and sixhundredThe exact sum-total of the numbers specified here,namely, three thousand twenty-three, eight hundred thirty-two, sevenhundred forty-five, not including the general multitude and the womenand children (Jer 52:15; Jer 39:9;2Ki 25:11).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar,…. In this year of his reign, the Jews say m, Tyre was delivered into his hands; and he carried off the Jews in Moab, Ammon, and the neighbouring nations, to the number after mentioned; though some think these were the poor people of the land he took from thence, after the murder of Gedaliah, and in revenge of that:
Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons; all which being put together make the following sum:
all the persons [were] four thousand and six hundred; this is the sum total of the three mentioned captivities.
m Seder Olam Rabba, c. 26. p. 77.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(30) In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar . . .There is no record of this final deportation, five years after the capture of the city, in the historical books. It probably followed on the conquest of Egypt predicted in Jer. 44:11; Jer. 44:28, and included some of those who had emigrated to that country; perhaps also on that of the Moabites and Edomites, among whom many Jews had probably taken refuge. The total number, including the 10,000 who are not mentioned here (see Note on Jer. 52:28), mounts up to 14,600. In Ezr. 2:64-65 the number of those who returned from Babylon is given at 42,360, besides 7,337 male and female slaves, and this, as many remained behind in Babylon, is more than can be accounted for by the natural increase of population. Assuming the correctness of the numbers, we are led to the conclusion that after the exiles were settled in Babylon, and found themselves in a more favourable position than was at first anticipated (Jer. 29:5-6), they were joined by friends and kindred, who hoped to be better off there than in the desolation and disorders of their own country.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
three and twentieth year. Four years after the fall of Jerusalem. Another contact of Bible and secular chronology, 473 B.C. See App-86.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
carried: Jer 52:15, Jer 6:9
Reciprocal: Eze 4:5 – three Eze 4:6 – forty days Eze 5:4 – take Zec 7:14 – the land
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The third group, of 745 people (presumably adult males), went to Babylon under Nebuzaradan’s authority in 581 B.C. This may have happened as the result of a punitive raid conducted after the assassination of Gedaliah. The total number of exiles counted here was 4,600 persons. This was a very small number of people.
"Perhaps the editor wanted to make the point that Yahweh could build a new future out of a mere handful of people." [Note: Thompson, p. 783.]
The first group of exiles really went to Babylon in 605 B.C. (2Ki 24:1; 2Ch 36:6-7; Dan 1:1-7). Why did the writer not mention that group? Perhaps he wanted to record only three deportations, and not four, since three signified a complete work of God to the Israelites. [Note: See Feinberg, "Jeremiah," p. 690, and Dyer, "Jeremiah," pp. 1205-6, for other explanations.]
The total number of Jews who returned to Judah from Babylon at the end of the Exile, in three companies, amounted to about 97,000. About 50,000 returned in 536 B.C., about 5,000 in 458 B.C., and about 42,000 in 444 B.C.