9He set fire to the temple of the Lord , the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.


In Context

6 and he was captured. He was taken to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where sentence was pronounced on him.

7 They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.

8 On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

9 He set fire to the temple of the Lord , the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.

10 The whole Babylonian army, under the commander of the imperial guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

11 Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those who had gone over to the king of Babylon.

2nd Kings 25:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:9And 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

25:9And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

25:9And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and the houses of Jerusalem, and every house he burnt with fire.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

25:9And he burnt the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:9and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great man's house he burned with fire.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

25:9And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:9And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house he burnt with fire.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

25:9He burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

25:9and he burneth the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, yea, every great house he hath burned with fire;