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2 Kings 25:9–10

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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.
And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
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  1. Amos 2:5Rank 1 from verse 9
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    5But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

  2. Psalms 74:3–7Rank 2 from verse 9
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    3Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

    4Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

    5A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

    6But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

    7They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

  3. 1 Kings 9:8Rank 3 from verse 9
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    8And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?

  4. 2 Chronicles 36:19Rank 4 from verse 9
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    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.

  5. Micah 3:12Rank 5 from verse 9
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    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.

From verse 10

  1. Nehemiah 1:3Rank 1 from verse 10
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    3And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

  2. Jeremiah 39:8Rank 2 from verse 10
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    8¶ And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

  3. Jeremiah 5:10Rank 3 from verse 10
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    10¶ Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s.

  4. Jeremiah 52:14–23Rank 4 from verse 10
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    14And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.

    15Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

    16But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

    17Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

    18The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

    19And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away.

    20The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

    21And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.

    22And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.

    23And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.

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2 Kings 25:9

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house

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Sense 1: A building or dwelling. Sense 2: The people of a household or family. Sense 3: A lineage or family line. Sense 4: As a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.

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king

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A sovereign ruler; one exercising royal authority over a kingdom.

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houses

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Buildings or dwelling places; by extension, the families, households, estates, possessions, royal lines, or bodies of people associated with them.

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every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

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man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

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fire

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Burning flame and heat that gives light, consumes, purifies, or destroys.

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captain

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1. A commander, chief, or officer set over an army, guard, band, company, people, or body. 2. A leader who goes before or conducts others in a work, course, or deliverance.

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guard

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Sense 1: To watch, protect, keep, or defend. Sense 2: A person or body assigned to such protection.

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about

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1. Around or near in place, position, or movement; on every side, in a circuit, from place to place, or turned from one direction or state toward another. 2. Approximately in number, measure, distance, or time. 3. Concerning, occupied with, or engaged in a matter. 4. On the point of, intending, or attempting an action.

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8¶ And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:

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.

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10And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

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11Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away.

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