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2 Kings 25:12

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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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But the captaine of the souldiers left of the poore of the land, to dresse the vines and to tyll the grounde.
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

8In the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, on the seventh day of the fifth month, Nebuzaradan, the king of Babylon's chief deputy, arrived in Jerusalem. He burned The Temple of God to the ground, went on to the royal palace, and then finished off the city—burned the whole place down. He put the Babylonian troops he had with him to work knocking down the city walls. Finally, he rounded up everyone left in the city, including those who had earlier deserted to the king of Babylon, and took them off into exile. He left a few poor dirt farmers behind to tend the vineyards and what was left of the fields. 13The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the bronze washstands, and the huge bronze basin (the Sea) that were in The Temple of God and hauled the bronze off to Babylon. They also took the various bronze-crafted liturgical accessories used in the services of Temple worship, as well as the gold and silver censers and sprinkling bowls. The king's deputy didn't miss a thing—he took every scrap of precious metal he could find. 16The amount of bronze they got from the two pillars, the Sea, and all the washstands that Solomon had made for The Temple of God was enormous—they couldn't weigh it all! Each pillar stood twenty-seven feet high, plus another four and a half feet for an ornate capital of bronze filigree and decorative fruit. 18The king's deputy took a number of special prisoners: Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the associate priest, three wardens, the chief remaining army officer, five of the king's counselors, the accountant, the chief recruiting officer for the army, and sixty men of standing from among the people. Nebuzaradan the king's deputy marched them all off to the king of Babylon at Riblah. And there at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon killed the lot of them in cold blood. Judah went into exile, orphaned from her land.

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 Ishmael? Yes, I heard your prayer for him. I'll also bless him; I'll make sure he has plenty of children—a huge family. He'll father twelve princes; I'll make him a great nation. But I'll establish my covenant with Isaac whom Sarah will give you about this time next year."
Psalms 83:6
Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia and the Tyrians, And now Assyria has joined up, Giving muscle to the gang of Lot.

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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