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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 39:8 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 39:8 |
Strong Concordance |
And the Chaldeans [03778] burned [08313] the king's [04428] house [01004], and the houses [01004] of the people [05971], with fire [0784], and brake down [05422] the walls [02346] of Jerusalem [03389]. |
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King James |
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| burned . . . the houses-- (Jer 52:12-13). Not immediately after the taking of the city, but in the month after, namely, the fifth month (compare Jer 39:2). The delay was probably caused by the princes having to send to Riblah to know the king's pleasure as to the city. |
2 And in the eleventh [06249] [06240] year [08141] of Zedekiah [06667], in the fourth [07243] month [02320], the ninth [08672] day of the month [02320], the city [05892] was broken up [01234].
12 Now in the fifth [02549] month [02320], in the tenth [06218] day of the month [02320], which was the nineteenth [08672] [06240] [08141] year [08141] of Nebuchadrezzar [05019] king [04428] of Babylon [0894], came [0935] Nebuzaradan [05018], captain [07227] of the guard [02876], which served [05975] [06440] the king [04428] of Babylon [0894], into Jerusalem [03389],
13 And burned [08313] the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and the king's [04428] house [01004]; and all the houses [01004] of Jerusalem [03389], and all the houses [01004] of the great [01419] men, burned [08313] he with fire [0784]: