7. योद्वाओं के जो दल दिहात में थे, जब उनके सब प्रधानों ने अपने जनों समेत सुना कि बाबुल के राजा ने अहीकाम के पुत्रा गदल्याह को देश का अधिकारी ठहराया है, और देश के जिन कंगाल लोगों को वह बाबुल को नहीं ले गया, क्या पुरूष, क्या स्त्री, क्या बालबच्चे, उन सभों को उसे सौंप दिया है,
7. Some officers and their men from the army of Judah were still out in the open country. They heard that the king of Babylon had put Gedaliah son of Ahikam in charge of the people who were left in the land: the men, women, and children who were the poorest. They were the ones who were not taken to Babylon as captives.