His mother] i.e. the queen-mother: see on 1 Kings 2:19. In the eighth year] i.e. of Nebuchadnezzar's reign. In Jeremiah 52:28 mention is made of a capture of 3,023 persons in Nebuchadnezzar's seventh year, of which there is no record in Kings, while Jeremiah makes no allusion to the deportation of prisoners here related.

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