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Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem;
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And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire;
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And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.
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And the rest of the people who were still in the town, and all those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and all the rest of the workmen, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners;
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But he let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields.
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