Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the rest of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
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Jeremiah 52:15 in context
Jeremiah 52:12–18
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Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.
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He burned the LORD’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
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All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.
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Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the rest of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
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But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.
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The Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the LORD’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the LORD’s house in pieces, and carried all of their bronze to Babylon.
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They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered.
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