Nehemiah 2:3 References
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I said to the king, "aLet the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad bwhen the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?"
b 2 Kings 25:8-10, 2 Chronicles 36:19, Nehemiah 1:3, Jeremiah 52:12-14
2 Kings 25
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aNow on the seventh day of the bfifth 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.
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aHe burned the house of the Lord, bthe king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.
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So all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard abroke down the walls around Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36
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Then athey 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.
Nehemiah 1
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They said to me, "The remnant there in the aprovince who survived the captivity are in great distress and breproach, and bthe wall of Jerusalem is broken down and cits gates are burned with fire."
Jeremiah 52
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aNow on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the bnineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, cNebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.