9 And he proceeded to burn the house+ of Jehovah and the king’s house+ and all the houses of Jerusalem;+ and the house of every great man* he burned with fire.+

19 And he proceeded to burn the house of the [true] God+ and pull down the wall+ of Jerusalem; and all its dwelling towers they burned with fire and also all its desirable articles,+ so as to cause ruin.+

21 At length it occurred in the twelfth year, in the tenth [month], on the fifth day of the month of our exile, that there came to me the escaped one from Jerusalem,+ saying: “The city has been struck down!”+