9And 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. …
Therefore 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.
And 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?
A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-21)Though we have reason to think that the army of the Chaldeans were much enraged against the city for holding out with so much stubbornness, yet they did not therefore put all to fire and sword as soon as they had taken the city (which is too commonly done in such cases), but about a month after (compare 2 Kgs. 25:8 ; 2 Kgs. 25:3 ) Nebuzar-adan was sent with orders to complete the destruction of Je…
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