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

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2 Kings 25:12• ¹²But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be 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 eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
¹⁰And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. (2 Chron. 36:9‑10)

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Jer. 24:1‑5• ¹The Lord showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
²One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
³Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
⁴Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
⁵Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. (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 Jews and three and twenty: (Jer. 52:28)

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

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1 Sam. 23:19‑22• ¹⁹Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
²⁰Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand.
²¹And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the Lord; for ye have compassion on me.
²²Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly. (1 Sam. 23:19‑22)

the poorest sort.

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

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Jer. 39:10• ¹⁰But Nebuzar-adan 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. (Jer. 39:10)

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Jer. 40:7• ⁷Now 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; (Jer. 40:7)

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Jer. 52:16• ¹⁶But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain 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 base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might 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)

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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.