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He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
2 Kings 25:9 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV 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.
  • BSB He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
  • NKJV He burned the house of the Lord and the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.
  • NASB And he burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.
  • NLT He burned down the Temple of the Lord, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He destroyed all the important buildings in the city.

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Quick answer

Nebuzaradan burns the temple, the palace, and every great house in Jerusalem. The house of God and the city are consumed by fire.

Overview

The burning of Yahweh's temple is the climactic tragedy of Kings, signifying the apparent departure of God's presence because of Judah's sin. The destruction fulfills the warnings of covenant judgment given since Moses. Yet the loss of the earthly temple ultimately points forward to Christ, in whom God dwells and whose body, raised up, is the true temple (John 2:19-21).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Amos 2:5But I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
  • Ps 74:3–7Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
  • 2 Chr 36:19They 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.
  • Ps 79:1A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
  • Mic 3:12Therefore 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.
  • 1 Kgs 9:8Though 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?’
  • Jer 52:13He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
  • Acts 6:13–14and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
  • Jer 37:10For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yes they would each rise up in his tent and burn this city with fire.’”
  • Isa 64:10–11Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
  • Jer 34:22Behold, I will command,” says Yahweh, “and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
  • Jer 37:8The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.”’
  • Luke 21:5–6As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,
  • Jer 7:14therefore will I 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.
  • Jer 39:8The Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
  • Lam 2:7The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
  • Lam 1:10The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
  • Jer 26:9Why have you prophesied in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant?’” All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in Yahweh’s house.

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  • VideoBibleProject — 2 Kings videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

Amid the long decline toward exile, the promise to David's house refuses to die; the flickering lamp kept burning anticipates the coming King who will not fail or be cut off.

How 2 Kings 25:9 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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