JERUSALEM DESTROYED

8 Onac the seventh day of the fifth month—which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.ad 9 He burned the Lord’s temple,ae the king’s palace,af and all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned downag all the great houses. 10 The whole Chaldean army with the captain of the guards tore down the wallsah surrounding Jerusalem. 11 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guards, deported the rest of the people who remained in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the population.ai