2 Kings 25:12
Good News Translation
But he left in Judah some of the poorest people, who owned no property, and put them to work in the vineyards and fields.

New Revised Standard Version
But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest people of the land to be vinedressers and tillers of the soil.

Contemporary English Version
Only some of the poorest people were left behind to work the vineyards and the fields.

New American Bible
But some of the country’s poor the captain of the guard left behind as vinedressers and farmers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of vines and husbandmen.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of vines and husbandmen.

left of the poor.

2 Kings 24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the valiant men of the army, to the number of ten thousand, into captivity: and every artificer and smith: and none were left, but the poor sort of the people of the land.

Jeremiah 39:10 But Nabuzardan the general left some of the poor people that had nothing at all, in the land of Juda, and he gave them vineyards, and cisterns at that time.

Jeremiah 40:7 And when all the captains of the army that were scattered through the countries, they and their companions, had heard that the king of Babylon had made Godolias the son of Ahicam governor of the country, and that he had committed unto him men and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, them that had not been carried away captive to Babylon:

Jeremiah 52:16 But of the poor of the land, Nabuzardan the general left some for vinedressers, and for husbandmen.

Ezekiel 33:24 Son of man, they that dwell in these ruinous places in the land of Israel, speak, saying: Abraham was one, and he inherited the land, but we are many, the land is given us in possession.

Context
The Temple Destroyed
11And Nabuzardan, the commander of the army, carried away the rest of the people, that remained in the city, and the fugitives, that had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the common people. 12But of the poor of the land he left some dressers of vines and husbandmen.13And the pillars of brass that were in the temple of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass, which was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldees broke in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.…
Cross References
2 Kings 24:14
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the valiant men of the army, to the number of ten thousand, into captivity: and every artificer and smith: and none were left, but the poor sort of the people of the land.

Jeremiah 39:10
But Nabuzardan the general left some of the poor people that had nothing at all, in the land of Juda, and he gave them vineyards, and cisterns at that time.

Jeremiah 40:7
And when all the captains of the army that were scattered through the countries, they and their companions, had heard that the king of Babylon had made Godolias the son of Ahicam governor of the country, and that he had committed unto him men and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, them that had not been carried away captive to Babylon:

Jeremiah 52:16
But of the poor of the land, Nabuzardan the general left some for vinedressers, and for husbandmen.

2 Kings 25:11
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