He carried away all Jerusalem, all the officials, all the warriors, ten thousand captives, all the artisans and the smiths; no one remained except the poorest people of the land.
2 Kings 25:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest people of the land to be vinedressers and tillers of the soil. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and soil tillers. American Standard Version (1901) But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen. Common English Bible The commander of the guard left some of the land’s poor people behind to work the vineyards and be farmers. Catholic Public Domain Version But he left behind some vinedressers and farmers from the poor of the land. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of vines and husbandmen. |
He carried away all Jerusalem, all the officials, all the warriors, ten thousand captives, all the artisans and the smiths; no one remained except the poorest people of the land.
He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the elite of the land, he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
The king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, seven thousand, the artisans and the smiths, one thousand, all of them strong and fit for war.
When they had finished, they brought the rest of the silver to the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made utensils for the house of the Lord, utensils for the service and for the burnt offerings, and ladles, and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord regularly all the days of Jehoiada.
one of my brothers, Hanani, came with certain men from Judah, and I asked them about the Jews who escaped, those who had survived the captivity, and about Jerusalem.
Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth dwindled, and few people are left.
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
When all the leaders of the forces in the open country and their troops heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam governor in the land and had committed to him men, women, and children, those of the poorest of the land who had not been taken into exile to Babylon,
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest people of the land to be vinedressers and tillers of the soil.
Mortal, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, “Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land, but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.”