2 Raja-raja 25:9

25:9 He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house. ¹ 

2 Raja-raja 25:2

25:2 The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

2 Raja-raja 1:1

Elijah Confronts the King and His Commanders

1:1 After Ahab died, Moab rebelled against Israel. ² 

Mazmur 74:5-7

74:5 They invade like lumberjacks

swinging their axes in a thick forest. ³ 

74:6 And now ⁴  they are tearing down ⁵  all its engravings ⁶ 

with axes ⁷  and crowbars. ⁸ 

74:7 They set your sanctuary on fire;

they desecrate your dwelling place by knocking it to the ground. ⁹ 

Yeremia 52:13

52:13 He burned down the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.

Ratapan 2:7

ז (Zayin)

2:7 The Lord ¹⁰  rejected ¹¹  his altar

and abhorred his temple. ¹² 

He handed over to the enemy ¹³ 

her palace walls;

the enemy ¹⁴  shouted ¹⁵  in the Lord’s temple

as if it were a feast day. ¹⁶ 

Yehezkiel 7:20-21

7:20 They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride, ¹⁷  and with it they made their abominable images – their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them. 7:21 I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world’s wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.

Yehezkiel 24:21

24:21 Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary – the source of your confident pride, ¹⁸  the object in which your eyes delight, ¹⁹  and your life’s passion. ²⁰  Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die ²¹  by the sword.

Yehezkiel 24:25

24:25 “And you, son of man, this is what will happen on the day I take ²²  from them their stronghold – their beautiful source of joy, the object in which their eyes delight, and the main concern of their lives, ²³  as well as their sons and daughters: ²⁴ 

Matius 24:2

24:2 And he said to them, ²⁵  “Do you see all these things? I tell you the truth, ²⁶  not one stone will be left on another. ²⁷  All will be torn down!” ²⁸ 

[25:9]  ¹ tn Heb “and every large house he burned down with fire.”

[1:1]  ² sn This statement may fit better with the final paragraph of 1 Kgs 22.

[74:5]  ³ tn Heb “it is known like one bringing upwards, in a thicket of wood, axes.” The Babylonian invaders destroyed the woodwork in the temple.

[74:6]  ⁴ tn This is the reading of the Qere (marginal reading). The Kethib (consonantal text) has “and a time.”

[74:6]  ⁵ tn The imperfect verbal form vividly describes the act as underway.

[74:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “its engravings together.”

[74:6]  ⁷ tn This Hebrew noun occurs only here in the OT (see H. R. Cohen, Biblical Hapax Legomena [SBLDS], 49-50).

[74:6]  ⁸ tn This Hebrew noun occurs only here in the OT. An Akkadian cognate refers to a “pickaxe” (cf. NEB “hatchet and pick”; NIV “axes and hatchets”; NRSV “hatchets and hammers”).

[74:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “to the ground they desecrate the dwelling place of your name.”

[2:7]  ¹⁰ tc The MT reads אֲדֹנָי (’adonay, “the Lord”) here rather than יהוה (YHWH, “the Lord”), which occurs near the end of this verse. See the tc note at 1:14.

[2:7]  ¹¹ tn The Heb verb זָנַח (zanakh) is a rejection term often used in military contexts. Emphasizing emotion, it may mean “to spurn.” In military contexts it may be rendered “to desert.”

[2:7]  ¹² tn Heb “His sanctuary.” The term מִקְדָּשׁוֹ (miqdasho, “His sanctuary”) refers to the temple (e.g., 1 Chr 22:19; 2 Chr 36:17; Ps 74:7; Isa 63:18; Ezek 48:21; Dan 8:11) (BDB 874 s.v. מִקְדָּשׁ).

[2:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “He delivered into the hand of the enemy.” The verb הִסְגִּיר (hisgir), Hiphil perfect 3rd person masculine singular from סָגַר (sagar), means “to give into someone’s control: to deliver” (Deut 23:16; Josh 20:5; 1 Sam 23:11, 20; 30:15; Job 16:11; Pss 31:9; 78:48, 50, 62; Lam 2:7; Amos 1:6, 9; Obad 14).

[2:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “they.”

[2:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “they gave voice” (קוֹל נָתְנוּ, kol natno). The verb נָתַן (natan, “to give”) with the noun קוֹל (kol, “voice, sound”) is an idiom meaning: “to utter a sound, make a noise, raise the voice” (e.g., Gen 45:2; Prov 2:3; Jer 4:16; 22:20; 48:34) (HALOT 734 s.v. נתן 12; BDB 679 s.v. נָתַן 1.x). Contextually, this describes the shout of victory by the Babylonians celebrating their conquest of Jerusalem.

[2:7]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “as on the day of an appointed time.” The term מוֹעֵד (mo’ed, “appointed time”) refers to the religious festivals that were celebrated at appointed times in the Hebrew calendar (BDB 417 s.v. 1.b). In contrast to making festivals neglected (forgotten) in v 6, the enemy had a celebration which was entirely out of place.

[7:20]  ¹⁷ tc The MT reads “he set up the beauty of his ornament as pride.” The verb may be repointed as plural without changing the consonantal text. The Syriac reads “their ornaments” (plural), implying עֶדְיָם (’edyam) rather than עֶדְיוֹ (’edyo) and meaning “they were proud of their beautiful ornaments.” This understands “ornaments” in the common sense of women’s jewelry, which then were used to make idols. The singular suffix “his ornaments” would refer to using items from the temple treasury to make idols. D. I. Block points out the foreshadowing of Ezek 16:17 which, with Rashi and the Targum, supports the understanding that this is a reference to temple items. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:265.

[24:21]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the pride of your strength” means “your strong pride.”

[24:21]  ¹⁹ sn Heb “the delight of your eyes.” Just as Ezekiel was deprived of his beloved wife (v. 16, the “desire” of his “eyes”) so the Lord would be forced to remove the object of his devotion, the temple, which symbolized his close relationship to his covenant people.

[24:21]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the object of compassion of your soul.” The accentuation in the traditional Hebrew text indicates that the descriptive phrases (“the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion”) modify the preceding “my sanctuary.”

[24:21]  ²¹ tn Heb “fall.”

[24:25]  ²² tn Heb “(Will) it not (be) in the day I take?”

[24:25]  ²³ tn Heb “the uplifting of their soul.” According to BDB 672 s.v. מַשָּׂא 2, the term “uplifting” refers to “that to which they lift up their soul, their heart’s desire.” However, this text is the only one listed for this use. It seems more likely that the term has its well-attested nuance of “burden, load,” here and refers to that which weighs them down emotionally and is a constant source of concern or worry.

[24:25]  ²⁴ tn In the Hebrew text there is no conjunction before “their sons and daughters.” For this reason one might assume that the preceding descriptive phrases refer to the sons and daughters, but verse 21 suggests otherwise. The descriptive phrases appear to refer to the “stronghold,” which parallels “my sanctuary” in verse 21. The children constitute a separate category.

[24:2]  ²⁵ tn Grk “answering, he said to them.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (ajpokriqei") is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[24:2]  ²⁶ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[24:2]  ²⁷ sn With the statement not one stone will be left on another Jesus predicted the total destruction of the temple, something that did occur in a.d. 70.

[24:2]  ²⁸ tn Grk “not one stone will be left here on another which will not be thrown down.”