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15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard (A)took away into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people who remained in the city, the [a](B)defectors who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the artisans. 16 But (C)Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had some of the poorest of the land remain to be vinedressers and [b]plowmen.

17 Now the bronze (D)pillars which belonged to the house of Yahweh and the (E)stands and the bronze (F)sea, which were in the house of Yahweh, the Chaldeans shattered and carried all their bronze to Babylon.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 52:15 Lit fallers who had fallen
  2. Jeremiah 52:16 Or unpaid laborers