Jeremiah 39:8

New American Bible - revised edition

The Chaldeans set fire to the king’s house and the houses of the people and tore down the walls of Jerusalem.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:8

On the seventh day of the fifth month (this was in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, captain of the bodyguard, came to Jerusalem as the agent of the king of Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:19

They burnt the house of God, tore down the walls of Jerusalem, burnt down all its palaces, and destroyed all its precious objects.

Nehemiah 1:3

They answered me: “The survivors of the captivity there in the province are in great distress and under reproach. The wall of Jerusalem has been breached, its gates gutted by fire.”

Psalm 79:7

For they have devoured Jacob, laid waste his dwelling place.

Isaiah 5:9

In my hearing the Lord of hosts has sworn: Many houses shall be in ruins, houses large and fine, with nobody living there.

Jeremiah 17:27

But if you do not obey me and keep holy the sabbath day, if you carry burdens and come through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath, I will set fire to its gates—a fire never to be extinguished—and it will consume the palaces of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 21:10

I have set my face against this city, for evil and not for good—oracle of the Lord. It shall be given into the power of the king of Babylon who shall set it on fire.

Jeremiah 32:29

The Chaldeans who are attacking this city shall go in and set the city on fire, burning it and the houses, on whose roofs incense was burned to Baal and libations were poured out to other gods in order to provoke me.

Jeremiah 34:2

Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Go to Zedekiah, king of Judah, and tell him: Thus says the Lord: I am handing this city over to the king of Babylon; he will burn it with fire.

Jeremiah 34:22

I am giving the command—oracle of the Lord—to bring them back to this city. They shall attack and capture it, and burn it with fire; the cities of Judah I will turn into a waste, where no one dwells.

Jeremiah 37:10

Even if you could defeat the whole Chaldean army that is now attacking you, and only the wounded remained, each in his tent, these would rise up and destroy the city with fire.

Jeremiah 38:18

But if you do not surrender to the princes of Babylon’s king, this city shall fall into the hand of the Chaldeans, who shall destroy it by fire, and you shall not escape their hand.”

Jeremiah 5:10

Climb her terraces, and ravage them, destroy them completely. Tear away her tendrils, they do not belong to the Lord.

Jeremiah 7:20

Therefore, thus says the Lord God: my anger and my wrath will pour out upon this place, upon human being and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruits of the earth; it will burn and not be quenched.

Lamentations 1:10

The foe stretched out his hands to all her precious things; She has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, Those you forbade to come into your assembly.

Lamentations 2:2

The Lord has devoured without pity all of Jacob’s dwellings; In his fury he has razed daughter Judah’s defenses, Has brought to the ground in dishonor a kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 2:7

The Lord has rejected his altar, spurned his sanctuary; He has handed over to the enemy the walls of its strongholds. They shout in the house of the Lord as on a feast day.

Ezekiel 16:41

They shall set fire to your homes and inflict punishments on you while many women watch. Thus I will put an end to your prostitution, and you shall never again offer payment.

Ezekiel 23:47

The army will stone them and hack them to pieces with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and set fire to their houses.

Ezekiel 33:21

On the fifth day of the tenth month, in the twelfth year of our exile, the survivor came to me from Jerusalem and said, “The city is taken!”

Amos 2:5

I will send fire upon Judah, and it will devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem reduced to rubble, And the mount of the temple to a forest ridge.