Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
Left of the poor
Bible References
Left of the poor
2 Kings 24:14
And he carried into exile all Jerusalem, and all the chiefs, and all the mighty of strength, ten thousand exiles, and all the artificers, and the smiths: there was not left except the powerless of the people of the land.
Jeremiah 39:10
And from the weak people which to them was nothing, Nebuzaradan chief of the cooks left in the land of Judah, and he will give to them vineyards and fields in that day.
Jeremiah 40:7
And all the chiefs of the armies which were in the field, they and their men will hear, for the king of Babel appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam over the land, and that he committed to him the men and the women and children and the poor of the land from whom they were not carried away captive to Babel.
Jeremiah 52:16
And from the weak of the land, Nebuzaradan chief of the cooks left for vine-dressers and for ploughmen.
Ezekiel 33:24
Son of man, they inhabiting these wastes upon the land of Israel say, saying, Abraham was one, and he will inherit the land: and we are many; the land was given to us for a possession.