2 Kings 24:14

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Summary

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 smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

Jerusalem

Craftsmen

1 Samuel 23:19

The poorest sort

Ezekiel 17:14

General references

Deuteronomy 28:43

Ezekiel 1:2

Bible References

Jerusalem

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of Jehovah.

Jehovah shewed me, and behold, two baskets of figs, set before the temple of Jehovah, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive from Jerusalem, Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the craftsmen and smiths, and had brought them to Babylon.

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

Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

Craftsmen

And the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the wood, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the waste?

The poorest sort

But the captain of the body-guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and husbandmen.

But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard left certain of the people, the poor who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

And all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam over the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that had not been carried away captive to Babylon.

But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

that the kingdom might be abased, that it might not lift itself up, that it might keep his covenant in order to stand.

General references

The sojourner that is in thy midst shall rise above thee higher and higher, and thou shalt sink down lower and lower.

On the fifth of the month, (it was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,)