Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
The Chaldeans also
King James Version
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
Holman Bible
The Chaldeans next burned down the king’s palace and the people’s houses and tore down the walls of Jerusalem.
International Standard Version
The Chaldeans burned the palace and the houses of the people with fire, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
A Conservative Version
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
American Standard Version
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
Amplified
The Chaldeans also burned down the king’s palace and the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Bible in Basic English
And the Chaldaeans put the king's house on fire, as well as the houses of the people, and had the walls of Jerusalem broken down.
Darby Translation
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Julia Smith Translation
And the Chaldeans burnt the house of the king, and the house of the people, with fire, and they broke the walls of Jerusalem.
King James 2000
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the Chaldeans burned the palace of the king and the houses of the people with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Modern King James verseion
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Moreover, the Chaldeans burnt up the king's palace, with the other houses of the people, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
The Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
The Emphasized Bible
And the house of the king, and the houses of the people, did the Chaldeans burn with fire, and the walls of Jerusalem, brake they down;
Webster
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
World English Bible
The Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Youngs Literal Translation
And the house of the king, and the house of the people, have the Chaldeans burnt with fire, and the walls of Jerusalem they have broken down.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 39:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Fall Of Jerusalem
7
After that, he had Zedekiah's eyes put out and had him placed in chains to be taken to Babylon.
8 The Chaldeans also
Cross References
Nehemiah 1:3
They said to me: The small band of Jews now living there in the land is in deep trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.
Jeremiah 21:10
For I have set my face against this city for harm and not for good, declares Jehovah. It will be surrendered to the king of Babylon and he will burn it with fire.
Jeremiah 38:18
But if you do not surrender, then this city will be handed over to the Babylonians. They will burn it down, and you will not escape from them.
2 Kings 25:9-10
He had the Temple of Jehovah, the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire.
Jeremiah 52:13-14
He burned down Jehovah's Temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem. Every important building was burned down.
2 Chronicles 36:19
He burned down the Temple and the city, with all its palaces and its wealth, and broke down the city wall.
Isaiah 5:9
With my own ears I heard Jehovah of Hosts say: Many houses will become empty. Large, beautiful houses will be without people to live in them.
Jeremiah 7:20
Therefore the Lord Jehovah says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast, on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground. It will burn and not be quenched.
Jeremiah 9:10-12
I will cry and weep for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the pastures in the wilderness. They are destroyed so that no one can travel through them. No one can hear the sound of cattle. Birds and cattle have fled. They are gone.
Jeremiah 17:27
If you do not listen to me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load and coming in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. And it will not be quenched.'
Jeremiah 34:2
This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says: 'Go to King Zedekiah of Judah, and tell him, Jehovah says: I am going to hand this city over to the king of Babylon. He will burn it down.
Jeremiah 34:22
I am going to give a command,' declares Jehovah. 'I will bring that army back to this city to attack it, capture it, and burn it down. I will destroy the cities of Judah so that no one will live there.'
Jeremiah 37:10
Even if you would defeat the entire Babylonian army so that they had only a few badly wounded men left in their tents, they would get up and burn down this city!'
Lamentations 1:10
The hand of her enemies is stretched out over all her desired things. She sees the nations come into her holy place. Whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.
Lamentations 2:2
Without mercy Jehovah destroyed every village in Judah. He tore down the forts that defended the land. He brought disgrace on the kingdom and its rulers.
Lamentations 2:7
Jehovah rejected his altar and disowned his holy place. He gave up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses. Their voices have been loud in the house of Jehovah as in the day of a holy meeting.
Amos 2:5
I will send fire upon Judah and it will devour the fortified buildings of Jerusalem.
Micah 3:12
It is your fault that Zion will be plowed like a field. Jerusalem will become heaps of ruin, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.