The people that were left in the city, whom neither the sword nor famine had destroyed, who were eight hundred and thirty-two persons, Jeremiah 52:29, being members and traders of that city; for it is likely that there were very many more of the country people who were fled thither, who were left with others of their brethren to manure the land, as it here follows. The remnant of the multitude, to wit, of the inhabitants of the country.
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2 Kings 25:11
11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitivesc that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.