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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.
Jeremiah 52:13 · New Living Translation
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:
  • 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.

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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The burning of Yahweh's house, Solomon's glorious temple, was the climactic horror, signaling that God had withdrawn His protective presence because of unrepented sin.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 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Amos 2:5But I will send a fire on Judah, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem.”
  • Amos 3:10–11“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
  • 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.
  • Amos 6:11“For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.
  • Isa 64:10–11Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
  • Ps 74:6–8Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
  • 2 Kgs 25:9He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
  • 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 38:23They will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans. You won’t escape out of their hand, but will be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. You will cause this city to be burned with fire.’”
  • Zech 11:1Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
  • Matt 24:2But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”
  • Ezek 24:1–14Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
  • Jer 39:8–9The Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
  • Acts 6:13–14and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking 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 their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.
  • Jer 22:14who says, ‘I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
  • 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 37:8–10The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.”’
  • Ezek 24:21Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Jeremiah videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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

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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