Jeremias 39:8

8 Os babilônios incendiaram o palácio real e as casas do povo e derrubaram 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 Em Ribla, o rei da Babilônia mandou executar os filhos de Zedequias diante dos seus olhos e também matou todos os nobres de Judá.

7 Mandou furar os olhos de Zedequias e prendê-lo com correntes de bronze para levá-lo para a Babilônia.

8 Os babilônios incendiaram o palácio real e as casas do povo e derrubaram os muros de Jerusalém.

9 Nebuzaradã, o comandante da guarda imperial, deportou para a Babilônia o povo que restou na cidade, junto com aqueles que tinham se rendido a ele, e o restante dos artesãos.

10 Somente alguns dos mais pobres do povo, que nada tinham, Nebuzaradã deixou para trás em Judá. E, naquela ocasião, ele lhes deu vinhas e campos.