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2 Kings 25:9

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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.
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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.

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2 Kings 25:9

COMBINED MEANING

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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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man

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

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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fire

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

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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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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