Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
Bible References
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Jeremiah 39:9
As for the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had gone over to him and the rest of the people who remained, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard carried them into exile in Babylon.
Jeremiah 40:5
As Jeremiah was still not going back, he said, “Go on back then to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people; or else go anywhere it seems right for you to go.” So the captain of the bodyguard gave him a ration and a gift and let him go.
2 Kings 25:12
But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
Ezekiel 33:24
“Son of man, they who live in these waste places in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one, yet he possessed the land; so to us who are many the land has been given as a possession.’