And he carried away. — The form of the verb is different from that in 2 Kings 24:14. We might render: “Yea, he carried away;” for 2 Kings 24:15-16 simply give the particulars of what was stated generally in 2 Kings 24:14. In the present verse the “princes” are defined.
He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother. — Fulfilment of Jeremiah 22:24-27.
The mighty of the land. — So the Targum, “the magnates of the land.” All who could do so, must have taken refuge in Jerusalem at the approach of the Chaldæan army.