They burned God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.
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They burned God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.
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And 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.
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And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 36:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 79:1 God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
- 1 Kings 9:8 Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’
- 2 Kings 25:9-11 He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire. All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem. Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
- Psalms 74:4-8 Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs. They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees. Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers. They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name. They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
- Psalms 79:7 for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
- Isaiah 64:10-11 Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burned with fire. All our pleasant places are laid waste.
- Jeremiah 7:4 Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’
- Jeremiah 7:14 therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
- Jeremiah 52:13-15 He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire. All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
- Lamentations 4:1 How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
- Micah 3:12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
- Luke 21:6 “As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 36:19 And they burnt the house of God,…
2Ch 36:19 And 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.
Ver. 19. And they burnt the house of God.] Which those Jews had so fearfully profaned.
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And burnt all the palaces thereof.] See 2Ki 25:9.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain To fulfil the word of the Lord by the…
To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah,.... That is, the Jews were so long servants in Babylon, as in the preceding verse, to accomplish Jeremiah's prophecy of it, Ch2 25:12.
until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths; the sabbatical years, or seventh year sabbaths, which, according to the law of the land, was to rest from being tilled, Lev 25:4, which law had been neglected by the Jews, and now, whether they would or not, the land should have rest for want of persons to till it:
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for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years; as threatened in Lev 26:34 on which text Jarchi observes, that at the destruction of the first temple the law concerning the sabbath, or rest of the land had been neglected four hundred and thirty years, in which space were sixty nine sabbatical years; and, according to Maimonides (d), it was at the end of a sabbatic year that the city and temple were destroyed, and so just seventy years had been neglected, and the land was tilled in them as in other years, and now it had rest that exact number of years; but of this we cannot be certain, though it is probable.
(d) Hilchot Shemitah Veyobel, c. 10. sect. 3.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 19. They burnt the house of God] Here…
Verse 19. They burnt the house of God] Here was an end to the temple; the most superb and costly edifice ever erected by man.
Brake down the wall of Jerusalem] So it ceased to be a fortified city.
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Burnt all the palaces] So it was no longer a dwelling-place for kings or great men.
Destroyed all the goodly vessels] Beat up all the silver and gold into masses, keeping only a few of the finest in their own shape. See 2Ch 36:18.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. brake down the wall] The Heb. verb here…
19. brake down the wall] The Heb. verb here used (nittçç) implies probably a more thorough breaking down than the pâraç of 2Ch_25:23 (see note); 2Ch_26:6.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (19) They burnt the house of God.—2Ki_25:9.
(19) They burnt the house of God.—2Ki_25:9.
Brake down the wall . . .—Jer_39:8; 2Ki_25:9-10.
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And destroyed all the goodly vessels.—Literally, And all her delightsome vessels were for destroying (lĕhashchîth). (Comp. Isa_64:11): “all our pleasant things are laid waste.” 2Ki_25:13 speaks of the breaking-up of the great vessels of the Temple, for the sake of carrying off their material more easily.
Servants to him and his sons . . . kingdom Of Persia.—A fulfilment of Jeremiah’s prophecy concerning Nebuchadnezzar: “And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land come” (Jer_27:7). Comp. also Isaiah’s word to Hezekiah (2Ki_20:18.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 19, 20. (Compare the parallel, 2Ki_25:1-12; Jer_39:1-10 Jer_52:24-30)…
Vers. 19, 20. (Compare the parallel, 2Ki_25:1-12; Jer_39:1-10 Jer_52:24-30) The reign of the kingdom of Persia; i.e. the ascending on the throne of the Persian king. The immediate successor of Nebuchadnezzar was his son Evil-Merodach.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 36:19 The Temple was destroyed in August 586 BC…
36:19 The Temple was destroyed in August 586 BC (see 2 Kgs 25:8; Jer 52:12).
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