Jeremiah 52:15

The whole v. is omitted by the LXX. The words "of the poorest sort of the people and" seem to have come in from the next v. through an error of sight on the part of a copyist. The three classes of persons actually spoken of in the v. appear to be (a) those found within the city at the time of its capture, (b) those who had gone out to the Chaldaeans during the siege (see note on Jeremiah 39:9), (c) the "residue of the multitude." But for "multitude" read, as mg. artificers. Cp. Proverbs 8:30 (R. V. "a master workman"). The original differs by but one consonant from "multitude" which is the reading in Kings.