And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
Them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon. The humiliating and destructive aggression of the Chaldeans on the kingdom of Judah was followed by the removal of Jewish captives to Babylon, in accordance with the prophetic word of the Lord, announced first by Isaiah to Hezekiah privately (2 Kings 20:17-18; also Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:1-19), and afterward by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 29:10) publicly with respect to the duration of the captivity.
Servants to him and his sons. The kings of Babylon, as of Persia, were ambitious of having a number of handsome, beautiful, well-formed, and accomplished youths in their royal retinue. Hence, they took the royal princes and aristocratic young men of Judah to the court of Babylon, (Daniel 1:1-21).
Until the reign of the kingdom of Persia - literally, until the king of the kingdom of the Persians.