'Multitude' in the Bible

“The sea has come up over Babylon;She has been engulfed with its tumultuous waves.

Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took away into exile some of the poorest of the people, those who were left in the city [at the time it was captured], along with those who deserted to join the king of Babylon [during the siege] and the rest of the artisans.