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11 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, exiled the rest of the people who remained in the city along with those who had previously surrendered to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the crowds.[a] 12 But the captain of the guard left the poorest people of the land to tend the vineyards and farms.

13 The Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars which were in the House of the Lord and the carts and the bronze sea which was in the House of the Lord, and they took the bronze to Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:11 Crowds is the reading of the Hebrew text. Craftsmen is the reading of the parallel in Jeremiah 52:15. The two words look very similar in Hebrew script.