Daily Devotions
Jeremiah
"He burned the house of the LORD"
Text: Jeremiah 52:13
THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM
One of the most beautiful buildings in Israel was the Temple built by King Solomon. But over time, the Temple became polluted. Wicked kings added carved images into the Temple. The LORD warned that He would cause the Temple to be destroyed. But His words fell on deaf ears!
“Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month (which was
the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),
Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, who served the king of Babylon,
came to Jerusalem. He burned the house of the LORD and the king’s house;
all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.
And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard
broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.”
Jeremiah 52:12-14
1. “Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month
(which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),
Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, who served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem”
a) King Nebuchadnezzar was already 19 years on his throne.
b) He commissioned Nebuzaradan, the king of the imperial guard to go to Jerusalem.
2. “He burned the house of the LORD and the king’s house;
all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire”
a) The task assigned to Nebuzaradan was straightforward.
b) He was to destroy Jerusalem.
c) The targets were:
i) The house of the LORD.
ii) The house of king Zedekiah.
iii) All the houses of Jerusalem.
iv) All the houses of the great ones in Jerusalem.
3. “And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard
broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around”
a) Nebuzaradan had the full support of the Babylonian army.
b) The Babylonian army broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
c) This completed the destruction of the city of Jerusalem.
d) All that Jeremiah had prophesied were fulfilled!