The Temple Burned

^12 (A)In the fifth month, on ^(B)the tenth day of the month—that was ^(C)the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who ^(D)served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.

^8 (A)In the fifth month, on ^(B)the seventh day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

¹⁹ “Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the ^(A)fourth month and the fast of the ^(B)fifth and the fast of the ^(C)seventh and the fast of the ^(D)tenth shall be to the house of Judah ^(E)seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love ^(F)truth and peace.

^29 (A)in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem 832 persons;

⁹ Then ^(A)Nebuzaradan, the ^(B)captain of the guard, carried into exile to Babylon the rest of the people who were left in the city, ^(C)those who had deserted to him, and the people who remained.

^12 (A)and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. ^(B)The king of Babylon took him prisoner ^(C)in the eighth year of his reign

^3 (A)saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and ^(B)the prophets, “Should I weep and ^(C)abstain in ^(D)the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

⁴ Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: ⁵ “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in ^(E)the fifth month and in ^(F)the seventh, for these ^(G)seventy years, ^(H)was it ^(I)for me that you fasted?

¹⁴ And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

³⁶ Meanwhile ^(A)the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, ^(B)the captain of the guard.