Jerusalem Burned and Plundered

^8 (A)Now on the seventh day of the ^(B)fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. ^9 (C)He burned the house of the Lord, ^(D)the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire. ¹⁰ So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard ^(E)broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

¹⁹ Then ^(A)they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its fortified buildings with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles.

³ They said to me, “The remnant there in the ^(A)province who survived the captivity are in great distress and ^(B)reproach, and ^(C)the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and ^(D)its gates are burned with fire.”

^12 (A)Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the ^(B)nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, ^(C)Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, ^[a]who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. ¹³ He ^(D)burned the house of the Lord, the ^(E)king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire. ¹⁴ So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard ^(F)broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.