KJV King James Version
And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man’s] house burnt he with fire.
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2 Kings 25:9
And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man’s] house burnt he with fire.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
WEB World English Bible
He burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
ASV American Standard Version
And he burnt the house of Jehovah, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and he burneth the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, yea, every great house he hath burned with fire;
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 25
6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh [day] of the month, which [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great [man’s] house burnt he with fire.
10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that [were with] the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
11 Now the rest of the people [that were] left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
12 But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land [to be] vinedressers and husbandmen.
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וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ףH8313 · sa.raphto burnאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]בֵּית־H1004 · betplaceיְהוָ֖הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]בֵּ֣יתH1004 · betplaceהַמֶּ֑לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingוְאֵ֨תH853 · et[Obj.]כָּל־H3605 · kolallבָּתֵּ֧יH1004 · betplaceיְרוּשָׁלִַ֛םH3389 · ye.ru.sha.laimJerusalemוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]כָּל־H3605 · kolallבֵּ֥יתH1004 · betplaceגָּד֖וֹלH1419 · ga.dolgreat: largeשָׂרַ֥ףH8313 · sa.raphto burnבָּאֵֽשׁ׃H784 · eshfire
Cross-references
Amos 2:5But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.Psalm 74:3-7Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; [even] all [that] the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.2 Chronicles 36:19And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.Micah 3:12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.Psalm 79:1A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.1 Kings 9:8And at this house, [which] is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?Jeremiah 37:10For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained [but] wounded men among them, [yet] should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.Jeremiah 34:22Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.Isaiah 64:10-11Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.Acts 6:13-14And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:Jeremiah 52:13And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great [men], burned he with fire:Jeremiah 37:8And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.Lamentations 1:10The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen [that] the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command [that] they should not enter into thy congregation.Jeremiah 39:8And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.Lamentations 2:7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.Luke 21:5-6And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,Jeremiah 7:14Therefore will I do unto [this] house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.Jeremiah 26:9Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
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