Jeremiah 52:24

Nebuzaradan took captive Seraiah, the chief priest, Zephaniah (Jeremiah 29:24-32; Jeremiah 37:3), the priest who was second in authority, and three other temple officials. Seraiah’s grandfather, Hilkiah, had been King Josiah’s chief priest (1 Chronicles 6:13-15). Seraiah’s son was Ezra the reformer (Ezra 7:1). Seraiah’s grandson, Joshua (Jeshua), by another son, Jehozadak, was the chief priest after the Exile when the returned Israelites rebuilt the temple (Ezra 5:2; Haggai 1:1).

"The other priest named here, Zephaniah, seems by his high position to have been the one who had passed on a threat of ’the stocks and collar’ to Jeremiah over this very question of the temple vessels a few years earlier [cf. Jeremiah 29:24-29]. On two subsequent occasions he had been part of a deputation from the king to consult the prophet over the siege of Jerusalem [Jeremiah 21:1-2; Jeremiah 37:3-5]. But Jeremiah’s call to surrender had seemed too radical, and now the city’s leaders had to pay the price that Babylon put on their refusal." [Note: Kidner, p. 160.]