Teks -- Jeremiah 39:8 (NET)

39:8 The Babylonians burned down the royal palace, the temple of the Lord, and the people’s homes, and they tore down the wall of Jerusalem.

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JFB: Jer 39:8 - burned . . . the houses

(Jer 52:12-13). Not immediately after the taking of the city, but in the month after, namely, the fifth month (compare Jer 39:2). The delay was probably caused by the princes having to send to Riblah to know the king's pleasure as to the city.

Calvin: Jer 39:8 - NO PHRASE

Here also the Prophet shews that whatever he had predicted was fulfilled, so that nothing was wanting to render faith sure and fixed. He had said, as we have seen, that if Zedekiah surrendered himself of his own accord, the houses in the city would not be burnt. Zedekiah thought this all vain, or at least he closed up his ears. He now heard, though he was blind, that God had declared nothing in vain by the mouth of Jeremiah; for his palace was burnt, and also all the other houses.

He put בית , bith, in the second clause, the singular for the plural; and so there is here an enallage, for it was not only one house of the people that was burnt, but the fire consumed all the houses. We at last come to the walls, which were beaten down; and thus the city was destroyed as Jeremiah had predicted. It follows, —

TSK: Jer 39:8 - burned // and brake

burned : Jer 7:20, Jer 9:10-12, Jer 17:27, Jer 21:10, Jer 34:2, Jer 34:22, Jer 37:10, Jer 38:18, Jer 52:13; 2Ki 25:9; 2Ch 36:19; Isa 5:9; Lam 1:10, Lam 2:2, Lam 2:7; Amo 2:5; Mic 3:12

and brake : Jer 52:14; 2Ki 25:10; Neh 1:3

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Poole: Jer 39:8

Still it is observable how punctual the Holy Ghost is in recording the fulfillings of the words of the Lord. This prophet had at least four times foretold that this would be one consequent of the king’ s and nobles’ stubbornness, in not submitting to the king of Babylon. See Jer 37:8 38:18,23 .

Gill: Jer 39:8 - And the Chaldeans burnt the king's house // and the houses of the people, with fire // and broke down the walls of Jerusalem

And the Chaldeans burnt the king's house,.... His palace: this was a month after the city was taken, as appears from Jer 52:12;

and the houses of the people, with fire; the houses of the common people, as distinct from the king's house, and the houses of the great men, Jer 52:13; though Jarchi interprets of the synagogues. It is in the original text in the singular number, "the house of the people"; which Abarbinel understands of the temple, called, not the house of God, he having departed from it; but the house of the people, a den of thieves; according to Adrichomius ^k, there was a house in Jerusalem called "the house of the vulgar", or common people, where public feasts and sports were kept; but the former sense seems best:

and broke down the walls of Jerusalem; demolished all the fortifications of it, and entirely dismantled it, that it might be no more a city of force and strength, as it had been.