Verse 12

But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest people of the land to tend the vineyards and the fields.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 24:14 : 14 He deported all of Jerusalem—all the officials, the mighty warriors, ten thousand captives, as well as all the craftsmen and metalworkers. No one remained except for the poorest people of the land.
  • Jer 40:7 : 7 When all the army commanders who were in the countryside, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam over the land and had put him in charge of the men, women, children, and the poor of the land who had not been exiled to Babylon,
  • Jer 52:16 : 16 But Nebuzaradan left behind some of the poorest people of the land to work as vinedressers and farmers.
  • Jer 39:10 : 10 But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, left behind in the land of Judah some of the poorest people, who owned nothing, and at that time gave them vineyards and fields.
  • Ezek 33:24 : 24 Son of man, the people living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, 'Abraham was only one man, yet he inherited the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.'