Two Baskets of Figs

24 After Jehoiachin^[a](A) son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the officials, the skilled workers and the artisans of Judah were carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Lord showed me two baskets of figs^(B) placed in front of the temple of the Lord.

²⁸ This is the number of the people Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile:^(A)

¹² But the commander left behind some of the poorest people^(A) of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

Gedaliah Assassinated^(A)

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^(B) over the land and had put him in charge of the men, women and children who were the poorest^(C) in the land and who had not been carried into exile to Babylon,

¹⁶ But Nebuzaradan left behind^(A) the rest of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.