Verse 14
2 Kings 24:14
Bible in Basic English
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And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/הִגְלָ֣ה אֶת כָּל יְ֠רוּשָׁלִַם וְֽ/אֶת כָּל הַ/שָּׂרִ֞ים וְ/אֵ֣ת כָּל גִּבּוֹרֵ֣י הַ/חַ֗יִל עשרה עֲשֶׂ֤רֶת אֲלָפִים֙ גּוֹלֶ֔ה וְ/כָל הֶ/חָרָ֖שׁ וְ/הַ/מַּסְגֵּ֑ר לֹ֣א נִשְׁאַ֔ר זוּלַ֖ת דַּלַּ֥ת עַם הָ/אָֽרֶץ
English Translation
And he will exile all of Jerusalem and all the princes and all the mighty warriors, ten thousand exiles; and all the craftsmen and the metalworkers, none remained except for the poorest people of the land.
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Chapter 24 Context
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And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of...
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Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; be...
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Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the hist...
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So Jehoiakim went to rest with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.
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And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his...
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Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months,...
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He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done.
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At that time the armies of Nebuchadnezzar came up to Jerusalem and the town was shut in on every sid...
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And Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came there, while his servants were shutting in the town;
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Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants an...
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And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-hous...
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And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand...
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And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all...
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And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing...
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