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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:
Jeremiah 52:13 · King James Version
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.
  • 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 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The burning of Yahweh's house, Solomon's glorious temple, was the climactic horror, signaling that God had withdrawn His protective presence because of unrepented sin.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 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.
  • Ps 79:1O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
  • 2 Chr 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.
  • Amos 2:5But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
  • Amos 3:10–11For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
  • Lam 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.
  • Amos 6:11For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
  • Isa 64:10–11Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
  • Ps 74:6–8But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
  • 2 Kgs 25:9And 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.
  • Jer 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.
  • Jer 38:23So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
  • Zech 11:1Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
  • Matt 24:2And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
  • Ezek 24:1–14Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
  • Jer 39:8–9And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
  • 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:
  • Ezek 7:20–22As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
  • Jer 22:14That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
  • Jer 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.
  • Jer 37:8–10And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
  • Ezek 24:21Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall 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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