Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 25:12
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land [to be] vinedressers and husbandmen.
12. left of the poor [R.V. poorest ] of the land ] The word was so rendered above in 2Ki 24:14. Now that the great houses and their inhabitants were gone and the craftsmen also, the life became no better than that of the nomads, and the people left behind could only turn to keeping the land in cultivation. Jeremiah (Jer 39:10) calls them ‘the poor of the people, which had nothing’.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
There was probably an intention of seating colonists into the country from some other part of the Empire, as the Assyrians had done in Samaria 2Ki 17:24.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
[See comments on 2Ki 25:8]
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(12) Of the poor of the land.2Ki. 24:14 (Comp. Jer. 39:10.)
Husbandmen.Or, plowmen. The word (Hebrew text, gbm) occurs here only. Jer. 52:16 has a cognate form (ygbm) also unique.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
12. Vinedressers and husbandmen From these poor no trouble was apprehended, and it was deemed wise to leave those who would cultivate the land, in order that the country might not become utterly a desert.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2Ki 25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land [to be] vinedressers and husbandmen.
Ver. 12. Left of the poor of the land. ] Who would be rather a burden than a benefit to the Chaldees; fruges consmere nati; but in Jewry might do some service. De populo tenuissimos, quibus nihil erat quicquam, reliquit. And yet of these poor ones also; about four or five years after this, were carried away seven hundred and forty-five persons; that so the land might enjoy her Sabbath. 2Ch 36:20-21 Jer 52:30 And here ended those before prophesied three hundred and ninety years of Israel’s iniquity; and those forty years of Judah’s. Eze 4:5-6
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
husbandmen. Compare Jer 52:16.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
left of the poor: 2Ki 24:14, Jer 39:10, Jer 40:7, Jer 52:16, Eze 33:24
Reciprocal: Ezr 5:12 – into the hand Pro 13:8 – the poor Eze 5:3 – a few