Jeremias 39:8

8 Os caldeus incendiaram a casa do rei e as casas do povo, e derribaram os muros de Jerusalém.

Jeremias 39:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 39:8

And the Chaldeans burnt the king's house
His palace: this was a month after the city was taken, as appears from ( Jeremiah 52:12 Jeremiah 52:13 ) ; 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, ( Jeremiah 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 ^F11, 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Theatrum Terrae Sanct. p. 154.

Jeremias 39:8 In-Context

6 E o rei de Babilônia matou os filhos de Zedequias em Ribla, � sua vista; também matou o rei de Babilônia a todos os nobres de Judá.

7 Cegou os olhos a Zedequias, e o atou com cadeias de bronze, para levá-lo a Babilônia.

8 Os caldeus incendiaram a casa do rei e as casas do povo, e derribaram os muros de Jerusalém.

9 Então, ao resto do povo, que ficara na cidade, aos desertores que se tinham passado para ele e ao resto do povo que havia ficado, levou-os Nebuzaradão, capitão da guarda, para Babilônia.

10 Mas aos pobres dentre o povo, que não tinham nada, Nebuzaradão, capitão da guarda, deixou-os ficar na terra de Judá; e ao mesmo tempo lhes deu vinhas e campos.