Jeremiah 52:13 He set fire to the temple of the LORD, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.

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1 Kings 9:8
And at this house, which is high, every one that passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?

2 Kings 25:9
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.

2 Chronicles 36:19
And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

Psalm 74:6
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

Psalm 79:1
O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Isaiah 64:11
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

Jeremiah 6:5
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

Jeremiah 19:13
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

Jeremiah 21:10
For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, said the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

52:12-23 The Chaldean army made woful havoc. But nothing is so particularly related here, as the carrying away of the articles in the temple. The remembrance of their beauty and value shows us the more the evil of sin.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

13. all the houses … and all the houses of the great—the "and" defines what houses especially are meant, namely, the houses of the great men.