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2 Kings 24:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Anda he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorestd sort of the people of the land.

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Jer. 24:1• ¹Jehovah shewed me, and behold, two baskets of figs, set before the temple of Jehovah, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive from Jerusalem, Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the craftsmen and smiths, and had brought them to Babylon. (Jer. 24:1)

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2 Kings 25:12• ¹²But the captain of the body-guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and husbandmen. (2 Kings 25:12)

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all.That is, all the chief men, the nobles, and the artificers. Among these were 7,000 mighty men, and 1,000 craftsmen and smiths.Jerusalem.

2 Chron. 36:9‑10• ⁹Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of Jehovah.
¹⁰And at the turn of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent and had him brought to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of Jehovah; and he made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. (2 Chron. 36:9‑10)

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Jer. 24:1‑5• ¹Jehovah shewed me, and behold, two baskets of figs, set before the temple of Jehovah, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive from Jerusalem, Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the craftsmen and smiths, and had brought them to Babylon.
²One basket had very good figs, like the figs first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten for badness.
³And Jehovah said unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs: the good figs very good; and the bad very bad, which cannot be eaten for badness.
⁴And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
⁵Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard for good them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans; (Jer. 24:1‑5)

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Jer. 52:28• ²⁸This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand and twenty-three Jews; (Jer. 52:28)

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Ezek. 1:1‑2• ¹Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
²On the fifth of the month, (it was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,) (Ezek. 1:1‑2)

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1 Sam. 23:19‑22• ¹⁹And the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the wood, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the waste?
²⁰And now, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and it will be for us to deliver him up into the king's hand.
²¹And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have compassion upon me.
²²Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his track is, who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtilly. (1 Sam. 23:19‑22)

the poorest sort.

2 Kings 25:12• ¹²But the captain of the body-guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and husbandmen. (2 Kings 25:12)

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Jer. 39:10• ¹⁰But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard left certain of the people, the poor who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. (Jer. 39:10)

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Jer. 40:7• ⁷And all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam over the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that had not been carried away captive to Babylon. (Jer. 40:7)

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Jer. 52:16• ¹⁶But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen. (Jer. 52:16)

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Ezek. 17:14• ¹⁴that the kingdom might be abased, that it might not lift itself up, that it might keep his covenant in order to stand. (Ezek. 17:14)

• This carrying away having been effected, Jeremiah in a vision sees two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord (Jer. 24), the only place where the true state of the people might be appreciated. One of these baskets was full of very good figs in God’s eyes, like figs that are first ripe; the other of very bad figs. That which men saw was exactly the opposite of that which God reveals to Jeremiah. To the world the good figs were the people remaining at Jerusalem under Zedekiah; to God’s heart they were those carried away from Judah. Their goodness rested upon the fact that they had submitted to Gods’ judgment due their iniquity. (“Jehoiachin (Or Jeconiah, or Coniah): 2 Kings 24:7-17” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valourb, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained but the poorest sort of the people of the land.

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Or "all those who were wealthy," as ch. 15.20.