¹⁴ Then ^(A)he took away into exile all Jerusalem and all the commanders and all the mighty men of valor, ^(B)10,000 captives, and ^(C)all the craftsmen and the smiths. None was left ^(D)except the poorest people of the land.

^7 (A)Then all the ^[a]commanders of the military forces that were in the field, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam over the land and that he had appointed him over the men, women, little ones, and those of the ^(B)poorest of the land who had not been exiled to Babylon.