Jeremiah 39:8
The Chaldeans burnt the king’s house and the people’s houses with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
In Context
7Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
Cross References
2 Kings 25:9He burnt the LORD’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He burnt every great house with fire.
Nehemiah 1:3They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burnt with fire.”
Jeremiah 5:10“Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not the LORD’s.
Jeremiah 9:10I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burnt up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.
Jeremiah 21:10For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good,” says the LORD. “It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.”’
Jeremiah 34:22Behold, I will command,” says the LORD, “and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 39:2-11
Jerusalem Taken. ( b. c. 588.) 1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. 2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up. 3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king… Read the whole commentary →