And he carried away all Jerusalem
 The inhabitants of it; not every individual of them, but the chief of them, the more honourable, rich, and useful; for the poorer sort were left, as afterwards expressed: 
 and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten
 thousand captives;
 which was the number of them in the whole; the particulars are after delivered: 
 and all the craftsmen and smiths;
 besides the nobles and the soldiers, he took all the artificers that exercised any handicraft trade or business; carpenters and blacksmiths, as some interpret these two words; so that there were none left to make arms for them; the last word may be rendered "enclosers", and are by some interpreted of enclosers of jewels in metals, as gold and silver: 
 none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land;
 who were left to till it, and to dress the vines; see ( 2 Kings 25:12 ) .