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2 Kings 25:12

But the captaine of the souldiers left of the poore of the land, to dresse the vines and to tyll the grounde.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Jerusalem;   Nebuzaradan (Nebuzar-Adan);   Prophecy;   Temple;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jerusalem;   Vineyards;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Jeremiah, the Book of;   Vine;   Zedekiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Egypt;   Exile;   Gedaliah;   Israel;   Jeremiah;   Jerusalem;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Lamentations;   Temple;   War;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judah, Kingdom of;   Nebuzaradan;   Temple, Solomon's;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kings, the Books of;   Nebuzaradan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Babylon, History and Religion of;   Diaspora;   Exile;   Guard;   People of the Land;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Lamentations, Book of;   Nebuzaradan;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Babylon ;   Nebuzaradan ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Captivity;   Gedaliah;   Husbandman;   Poor;   Samaria, Country of;   Temple;   Vine;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Agriculture;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But the captain of the guards left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.
Hebrew Names Version
But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
King James Version
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
English Standard Version
But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
New Century Version
But the commander left behind some of the poorest people of the land to take care of the vineyards and fields.
New English Translation
But he left behind some of the poor of the land and gave them fields and vineyards.
Amplified Bible
But the captain of the bodyguard left some of the unimportant and poorest people of the land to be vineyard workers and farmers.
New American Standard Bible
But the captain of the bodyguards left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.
World English Bible
But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But the chiefe steward left of the poore of the land to dresse the vines, and to till the land.
Legacy Standard Bible
But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
Berean Standard Bible
But the captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.
Contemporary English Version
Only some of the poorest people were left behind to work the vineyards and the fields.
Complete Jewish Bible
But the commander of the guard left behind some of the poor people of the land to be vineyard-workers and farmers.
Darby Translation
But the captain of the body-guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and husbandmen.
Easy-to-Read Version
He let only the poorest of the common people stay there. He let them stay so that they could take care of the grapes and other crops.
George Lamsa Translation
But Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guard, left some of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
Good News Translation
But he left in Judah some of the poorest people, who owned no property, and put them to work in the vineyards and fields.
Lexham English Bible
But the poor of the land the commander of the imperial guard left for the vineyards and for tilling.
Literal Translation
But the chief of the executioners left of the poorest of the land for vinedressers and farmers.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And of the poorest people dyd the chefe captaine leaue in ye londe to be wynegardeners and plowmen.
American Standard Version
But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
Bible in Basic English
But he let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
King James Version (1611)
But the captaine of the guard left of the poore of the land, to be Uine-dressers, and husbandmen.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vine-dressers and husbandmen.
English Revised Version
But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he lefte of the pore men of the lond vyntilieris, and erthe tilieris.
Update Bible Version
But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
Webster's Bible Translation
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land [to be] vine-dressers and husbandmen.
New King James Version
But the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers.
New Living Translation
But the captain of the guard allowed some of the poorest people to stay behind to care for the vineyards and fields.
New Life Bible
But the captain of the soldiers left behind some of the very poor people of the land to take care of the vines and to plow the fields.
New Revised Standard
But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest people of the land to be vinedressers and tillers of the soil.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, of the poorest of the land, did the chief of the royal executioners, leave, for vine-dressers and for husbandmen.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of vines and husbandmen.
Revised Standard Version
But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
Young's Literal Translation
and of the poor of the land hath the chief of the executioners left for vine-dressers and for husbandmen.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

Contextual Overview

8 And the seuenth day of the fifth moneth (which is the nineteenth yere of king Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon) came Nebusaradan a seruaunt of the king of Babylon & chiefe captayne of the men of warre, vnto Hierusalem: 9 And burnt the house of the Lord, and the kinges house, and all the houses of Hierusalem, and all great houses burnt he with fire. 10 And all the souldiers of the Chaldees that were with the chiefe captayne of the men of warre, brake downe the walles of Hierusalem rounde about. 11 But the rest of the people that were left in the citie, and them that were fled to the king of Babylon, with the remnaunt of the common people, did Nabusaradan the chiefe captayne of the men of warre carry away. 12 But the captaine of the souldiers left of the poore of the land, to dresse the vines and to tyll the grounde. 13 And the pillers of brasse that were in the house of the Lorde, and the sockets, and the brasen lauatorie that was in the house of the Lorde, did the Chaldees breake, & carryed all the brasse of them to Babylon. 14 And the pots, shouels, instrumentes of musicke, spoones, and all the vessels of brasse that they ministred in, toke they away, 15 And the fire pannes, and basons: and such thinges as were of golde and of siluer, them toke ihe chiefe captayne away: 16 Euen two pillers, one lauatorie, and the sockets which Solomon had made for the house of the Lorde: The brasse of al these vessels was without waight. 17 The height of the one piller was eightteene cubites, and the pommel thereof was brasse: and the height of the pommel was with wreathen worke three cubites, & pomegranates vpon the pommel rounde about all of brasse: And of the same fashion was the second piller, with a wreathen worke.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

left of the poor: 2 Kings 24:14, Jeremiah 39:10, Jeremiah 40:7, Jeremiah 52:16, Ezekiel 33:24

Reciprocal: Ezra 5:12 - into the hand Proverbs 13:8 - the poor Ezekiel 5:3 - a few

Cross-References

Genesis 17:20
And as concernyng Ismael also I haue hearde thee: for I haue blessed him, and wyll make him fruitefull, and wyl multiplie him excedingly: Twelue princes shall he beget, and I wyll make a great nation of hym.
Genesis 21:13
Moreouer, of the sonne of the bonde woman wyll I make a nation, because he is thy seede.
Genesis 25:10
Whiche fielde Abraham bought of the sonnes of Heth: there was Abraham buryed, and Sara his wyfe.
Genesis 25:15
Ietur, Naphis, and Cedina.
Psalms 83:6
The pauilions of Edom and the Ismaelites: of Moab, and Hagerites,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There was probably an intention of seating colonists into the country from some other part of the Empire, as the Assyrians had done in Samaria 2 Kings 17:24.


 
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