2 Kings 25:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

2 Kings 25:12 —

Old words in this verse

husbandman: — farmer, one who tends the land.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 40:7
Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
2 Kings 24:14
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.
Jeremiah 39:10
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
Ezekiel 33:24
Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
Jeremiah 52:16
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-21)

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 as they had taken the city (which is too commonly done in such cases), but about a month after (compare 2 Kgs. 25:8; 2 Kgs. 25:3) Nebuzar-adan was sent with orders to complete the destruction of Jeru…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

8-18. on the seventh day of the month ... came Nebuzar-adan--(compare Jr 52:12). In attempting to reconcile these two passages, it must be supposed either that, though he had set out on the seventh, he did not arrive in Jerusalem till the tenth, or that he did not put his orders in execution till that day. His office as captain of the guard (Ge 37:36; 39:1) called him to execute the awards of just…