Jerusalem Destroyed

⁸ On^(A) the seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.^{(B) 9} He burned the Lord’s temple,^(C) the king’s palace,^(D) and all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down^(E) all the great houses. ¹⁰ The whole Chaldean army with the commander of the guards tore down the walls^(F) surrounding Jerusalem. ¹¹ Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, deported the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the population.^{(G) 12} But the commander of the guards left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.^(H)

⁸ The Chaldeans next burned down the king’s palace and the people’s houses and tore down the walls of Jerusalem. ⁹ Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards,^(A) deported the rest of the people to Babylon—those who had remained in the city and those deserters who had defected to him along with the rest of the people who had remained. ¹⁰ However, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing, and he gave them vineyards and fields at that time.^(B)