John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 39:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the Chaldeans burnt the king’s house, etc.] His palace: this was a month after the city was taken, as appears from (<245212>Jeremiah 52:12,13); 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, (<245213>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 Adrichomiusf732, 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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