Jeremiah 52:16
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New International Version (©2011)
But Nebuzaradan left behind the rest of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But Nebuzaradan allowed some of the poorest people to stay behind in Judah to care for the vineyards and fields.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But some of the poorest people of the land Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, left to be vinedressers and farmers.

International Standard Version (©2012)
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest people of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.

NET Bible (©2006)
But he left behind some of the poor and gave them fields and vineyards.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, left some of the poorest people in the land to work in the vineyards and on the farms.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for farmers.

American King James Version
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for farmers.

American Standard Version
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But of the poor of the land, Nabuzardan the general left some for vinedressers, and for husbandmen.

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

English Revised Version
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

Webster's Bible Translation
But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vine-dressers and for husbandmen.

World English Bible
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.

Young's Literal Translation
and of the poor of the land hath Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners, left for vine-dressers and for husbandmen.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

52:12-23 The Chaldean army made woful havoc. But nothing is so particularly related here, as the carrying away of the articles in the temple. The remembrance of their beauty and value shows us the more the evil of sin.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land,.... Of the land of Judea, who lived in the country, and had not been concerned in defending the city against the Chaldeans:

for vinedressers, and for husbandmen; to look after the vineyards and fields, and dress and manure them, that the king of Babylon might receive some advantage by the conquest he had made; See Gill on Jeremiah 39:10.

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The Temple and the City Burned
…15Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude. 16But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for farmers. 17Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon. …

2 Kings 25:8 On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
2 Kings 25:12 But the commander left behind some of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
Jeremiah 39:10 But Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people, who owned nothing; and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.
Jeremiah 40:2 When the commander of the guard found Jeremiah, he said to him, "The LORD your God decreed this disaster for this place.
Jeremiah 40:7 When all the army officers and their men who were still in the open country heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam as governor over the land and had put him in charge of the men, women and children who were the poorest in the land and who had not been carried into exile to Babylon,