2 Kings 24:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths a thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, 7,000, and craftsmen and smiths, 1,000, all strong and fit for war.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths a thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ The Babylonian king also exiled seven thousand warriors—each one a hero trained for battle—as well as a thousand skilled workers and metalworkers to Babylon.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ and all the robust men, seven thousand, and the artisans and craftsman, one thousand: all who were strong men and fit for war. And the king of Babylon led them away as captives, into Babylon.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And all the strong men, seven thousand, and the artificers, and the smiths, a thousand, all that were valiant men and fit for war: and the king of Babylon led them captives into Babylon.

2 Kings 24:16 Cross References

2 Kings 24:14

And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

2 Kings 25:12

But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

1 Chronicles 9:1

So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel: and Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their transgression.

Jeremiah 22:25

and I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them of whom thou art afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 29:2

(after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen-mother, and the eunuchs, and the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)

Jeremiah 52:28

This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

Ezekiel 17:13

and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land:

Ezekiel 17:3

and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar: