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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 25:12 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ki 25:12 |
King James |
But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| 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 Kg2 17:24. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Left of the poor - So while the rich were prisoners in a strange land, the poor had liberty and peace in their own country! Thus providence sometimes humbles the proud, and favours them of low degree. |
24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.