men. Hebrew pi. of 'enosh. App-14.
governor. No more attempts to make. king, after Zedekiah's perjury. See Ezekiel 17:15-19.
children. young children.
poor. Hebrew "poverty", put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for poor people. See Proverbs 6:11.
7 Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;