2 Kings 25:9

And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.

Cross-references

Jeremiah 34:22 Prophetic fulfillment

Jeremiah 34:22 prophesied God would bring Babylon to burn Jerusalem—that prophecy is fulfilled here.

Luke 21:6 Typology

Luke 21:6 predicts the temple's total destruction, echoing this historical burning as a typological foreshadowing.

Micah 3:12 Prophetic fulfillment

Micah 3:12 prophesies that Zion will be plowed and the temple hill become a wooded height, fulfilled in this destruction.

Amos 2:5 Prophetic fulfillment

Amos 2:5 prophesied fire on Judah consuming fortresses—this burning fulfills that prophecy.

Lamentations 2:7 says the Lord spurned His sanctuary and the enemy shouted in His house, echoing this burning.

Lamentations 1:10 describes the enemy entering the sanctuary and laying hands on precious things, as happened here.

Jeremiah 52:13 repeats nearly verbatim the burning of the temple and houses—a parallel narrative.

Jeremiah 39:8 gives a parallel account of the same burning of palaces and houses.

Jeremiah 37:8 Prophetic fulfillment

Jeremiah 37:8 predicted Babylon would return and burn the city—this verse records the fulfillment.

Jeremiah 26:9 Prophetic fulfillment

Jeremiah 26:9 records the accusation that Jeremiah prophesied the temple would become like Shiloh, pointing to this destruction.

Jeremiah 7:14 Prophetic fulfillment

Jeremiah 7:14 is the prophecy that God will destroy the temple as He did Shiloh, fulfilled in this burning.

Isaiah 64:11 explicitly says our holy house has been burned by fire, a direct poetic reference to this event.

Isaiah 64:10 mourns that Zion and Jerusalem have become desolate wilderness, reflecting the destruction depicted here.

Psalm 79:1 Allusion

Psalm 79:1 laments the nations defiling the holy temple and reducing Jerusalem to rubble, directly echoing this burning.

Psalm 74:3-7 poetically describes the same event: enemies setting fire to the sanctuary and profaning God's dwelling place.

2 Chronicles 36:19 gives a parallel account of the burning of the temple and city by the Babylonians.

1 Kings 9:8 Prophetic fulfillment

1 Kings 9:8 warned the temple would become a heap of ruins; this burning fulfills that prophecy.

Jeremiah 17:27 Prophetic fulfillment

Jeremiah 17:27 prophesied an unquenchable fire at Jerusalem's gates — this burning of the temple and houses is the direct fulfillment of that warning.

Jeremiah 32:29 Prophetic fulfillment

Jeremiah 32:29 directly predicted that the Chaldeans would set the city on fire — here that prophecy is carried out as the temple and houses are burned.

1 Kings 9:7 Prophetic fulfillment

In 1 Kings 9:7, God warned Solomon that rejecting Him would lead to the temple being rejected — here that warning is tragically fulfilled by the burning.

Psalm 74:7 Allusion

Psalm 74:7 laments the burning of the sanctuary — it is a poetic reflection on the very event described here, mourning the destruction.

Lamentations 4:1 mourns the same destruction, lamenting the temple's gold dimmed and holy stones scattered.

Ezekiel 16:41 Prophetic fulfillment

Ezekiel 16:41 predicted Jerusalem's houses would be burned — the Babylonian burning here fulfills that.

Zechariah 7:3 Historical context

Zechariah 7:3 asks about fasting in the fifth month — that fast commemorates the temple burning described here.