²⁶ These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

¹⁵ So that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: and you will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled, and a cause of trouble to kings and countries, and that there were outbursts against authority there in the past: for which reason the town was made waste.