⁸ The ·Babylonians [^LChaldeans] ·set fire to [^Lburned with fire] the ·palace [^Lhouse of the king] and to the houses of the people, and they ·broke [tore] down the walls around Jerusalem. ⁹ Nebuzaradan, commander of the king’s special guards, took the people left in Jerusalem, those captives who had ·surrendered [deserted; defected; ^Lfell] to him earlier, and the rest of the people of Jerusalem, and he ·took them all away [exiled them all] to Babylon. ¹⁰ But Nebuzaradan, commander of the guard, left some of the poorest people of Judah behind. They owned nothing, but that day he gave them vineyards and fields.