2 Kings 25:12
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen .
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Barnes' Notes
There was probably an intention of seating colonists into the country from some other part of the Empire, as the Assyrians had done in Samaria 2Ki 17:24.
Though we have reason to think that the army of the Chaldeans were much enraged against the city for holding out with so much stubbornness, yet they did not therefore put all to fire and sword as soon…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
left of the poor[R.V. poorest] of the land The word was so rendered above in 2Ki 24:14. Now that the great houses and their inhabitants were gone and the craftsmen also, the life became no better than…
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