10. Only the poorest people who owned no land were left behind in Judah, and Nebuzaradan gave them fields and vineyards.
11. Nebuchadnezzar had given the following orders to Nebuzaradan:
12. “Find Jeremiah and keep him safe. Take good care of him and do whatever he asks.”
13. Nebuzaradan, Nebushazban, Nergal Sharezer, and the other officers of King Nebuchadnezzar
14. sent some of their troops to bring me from the courtyard of the royal palace guards. They put me in the care of Gedaliah son of Ahikam and told him to take me to my home. And so I was allowed to stay with the people who remained in Judah.
15. While I was a prisoner in the courtyard of the palace guard, the Lord told me to say