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He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
Jeremiah 52:13 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
  • KJV And 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:
  • 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 large 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 burned the temple, the palace, and all the great houses of Jerusalem. The city's most sacred and significant buildings were reduced to ashes.

Overview

The burning of Yahweh's house, Solomon's glorious temple, was the climactic horror, signaling that God had withdrawn His protective presence because of unrepented sin. Jeremiah had warned that trusting in the temple while living in rebellion was vain (chapter 7). Its destruction points forward to the true temple, Christ's body (John 2:19-21), which God would raise indestructible.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Mic 3:12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
  • Ps 79:1A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
  • 2 Chr 36:19Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.
  • Amos 2:5So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”
  • Amos 3:10–11“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
  • Lam 2:7The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.
  • Amos 6:11For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”
  • Isa 64:10–11Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
  • Ps 74:6–8and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.
  • 2 Kgs 25:9He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
  • Jer 7:14therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.
  • Jer 38:23All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”
  • Zech 11:1Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!
  • Matt 24:2“Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
  • Ezek 24:1–14In the ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  • Jer 39:8–9The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
  • Acts 6:13–14where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
  • Ezek 7:20–22His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.
  • Jer 22:14who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.
  • Jer 34:22Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
  • Jer 37:8–10Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.
  • Ezek 24:21Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.’

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Christ at the center

Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.

How Jeremiah 52:13 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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