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Lexicon :: Strong's H8313 - śārap̄

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שָׂרַף
Transliteration
śārap̄
Pronunciation
saw-raf'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2292

Strong’s Definitions

שָׂרַף sâraph, saw-raf'; a primitive root; to be (causatively, set) on fire:—(cause to, make a) burn((-ing), up) kindle, × utterly.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 117x

The KJV translates Strong's H8313 in the following manner: burn (112x), burn up (2x), kindled (1x), made (1x), utterly (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 117x
The KJV translates Strong's H8313 in the following manner: burn (112x), burn up (2x), kindled (1x), made (1x), utterly (1x).

  1. to burn

    1. (Qal) to burn

    2. (Niphal) to be burned

    3. (Piel) burner, burning (participle)

    4. (Pual) to be burnt up, be burned

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׂרַף sâraph, saw-raf'; a primitive root; to be (causatively, set) on fire:—(cause to, make a) burn((-ing), up) kindle, × utterly.
STRONGS H8313: Abbreviations
שָׂרַף 117 verb burn (70 times + בָּאֵשׁ, 2 times + בְּמוֺאֵֿשׁ) (Late Hebrew (rare) = Biblical Hebrew; Assyrian šarâpu; Aramaic שְׂרַף (rare); bdb097616 is absorb, consume); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular שׂ׳ Joshua 11:9 +, 3rd person feminine singular suffix שְׂרָפָ֫חַם Isaiah 47:14, etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשְׂרֹף Numbers 19:5 2 times, more often וַיִּשְׂרֹף Exodus 32:20 +, 2rd person masculine plural תִּשְׂרְפוּן Deuteronomy 7:5 2 times; Infinitive absolute שָׂרוֺף 2 Samuel 23:7; construct שְׂרֹף Jeremiah 36:25 +; suffix שָׂרְפוֺ Judges 9:52; Amos 2:1; Participle active שׂרֵף Leviticus 16:28; Numbers 19:8, plural שׂרְפִים 2 Kings 17:31; passive masculine plural שְׂרֻפִים Numbers 17:4 [Numbers 16:39]; feminine singular שְׂרוּפָה 1 Samuel 30:3, שְׂרֻפָה Psalm 80:17 [Psalm 80:16], plural שְׂרוּפוֺת Nehemiah 3:24 [Nehemiah 4:2], construct שְׂרֻפוֺת Isaiah 1:7; — burn (59 times + בָּאֵשׁ, 2 times + בְּמוֺאֵֿשׁ):
1. in making bricks, + לִשְׂרֵפָה Genesis 11:3 (J; object omitted).
2.
a. with accusative of thing, usually to destroy, e.g. door Judges 9:52, house Judges 12:1; 1 Kings 16:18 (both with עַל person), Jeremiah 39:8 11 times, compare passive participle Nehemiah 3:24, city Joshua 6:24; 1 Samuel 30:1, 1 Samuel 30:14 16 times, compare passive participle 1 Samuel 30:3; Isaiah 1:7, chariots Joshua 11:6, Joshua 11:9; 2 Kings 23:11; Psalm 46:10 [Psalm 46:9] (subject י׳), idols, etc., Exodus 32:20 (accusative omitted), Deuteronomy 9:21 10 times, roll † Jeremiah 36:25, Jeremiah 36:27, Jeremiah 36:28, Jeremiah 36:29, Jeremiah 36:32, wood † Isaiah 44:16, Isaiah 44:19 (both + בְּמוֺאֵֿשׁ), compare Psalm 80:17 [Psalm 80:16] (figurative), Jeremiah 51:32, hair † Ezekiel 5:4; bones, to lime (as outrage) † Amos 2:1; upon altars (in desecration) † 1 Kings 13:2; 1Ki 23:16 [2 Kings 23:16]; 1Ki 23:20 [2 Kings 23:20] 2 Chronicles 34:5; bodies, as funeral rite 1 Samuel 31:12 (rare custom, RSSemitic i. 353; 2nd ed. 372; but Klo Bu read יִשְׂפְּדוּ [= יִס׳]; compare BenzArchaeology 163; Ency. Bib. DEAD NowArchaeology i. 188); שׂ׳ as funeral rite also (object omitted, probably spices, compare 2 Chronicles 16:14), with ל person dead Jeremiah 34:5, + accusative of congnate meaning with verb שְׂרֵפָה 2 Chronicles 16:14 (compare שְׂרֵפָה); in ceremonial of P (never of burning sacrifice on altar, הִקְטִיר, compare הֶעְֶלֶה, but) chiefly (14 times) of consuming refuse, especially unused portions of victims, etc. (to prevent use), and infected objects, Exodus 29:14, Exodus 29:34 +, sometimes מִחוּץ לַמַּחֲנֶה Leviticus 4:12 (+ עַעֵָֿצִים), Leviticus 4:21 4 times, etc., compare Ezekiel 43:21; also of burning red heifer (to produce ashes for purification) Numbers 19:5 (twice in verse); Numbers 19:8.
† b. burn, with accusative of person,
(1) as penalty Joshua 7:25 (JE), Judges 14:15; Judges 15:6; Leviticus 20:14, compare Numbers 17:4 [Numbers 16:39] (passive participle), so, אֵשׁ subject, Isaiah 47:14, with accusative of congnate meaning with verb שְׂרֵפָה Leviticus 10:6 (P);
(2) as sacrifice, Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 19:5; + ל dei Deuteronomy 12:31; 2 Kings 17:31.
† Niph. Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִשָּׂרֵף Joshua 7:15 +, 3rd person feminine plural תִּשָּׂרַפְנָה Proverbs 6:27, etc.; — be burned (11 times + בָּאֵשׁ): of city Jeremiah 38:17 + Jeremiah 38:23 (read תִּשָּׂרֵף for תִּשְׂרֹף Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Targum Hi Ew Gf Gie Du), idols, etc., Micah 1:7; 1 Chronicles 14:12; ritually (compare Qal 2 a near the end) Leviticus 4:12; Leviticus 6:23 [Leviticus 6:30]; Leviticus 7:17, Leviticus 7:19; Leviticus 13:52; Leviticus 19:6; of person, as penalty Genesis 38:24 (J), Joshua 7:15 (JE), 2 Samuel 23:7 (poetry), Leviticus 21:9 (H).
† Pi. Participle suffix מְסָֽרְפוֺ [H5635 Amos 6:10] his burner, usually one burning him, but probably burning spices for him, see Dr and compare Qal above.
† Pu. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular שֹׂרָ֑ף, of goat Leviticus 10:16 it was burnt up (and gone).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

11:3; 38:24

Exodus

29:14; 29:34; 32:20; 32:20

Leviticus

4:12; 4:12; 4:21; 6:30; 7:17; 7:19; 10:6; 10:16; 13:52; 16:28; 19:6; 20:14; 21:9

Numbers

16:39; 16:39; 19:5; 19:5; 19:8; 19:8

Deuteronomy

7:5; 9:21; 12:31

Joshua

6:24; 7:15; 7:15; 7:25; 11:6; 11:9; 11:9

Judges

9:52; 9:52; 12:1; 14:15; 15:6

1 Samuel

30:1; 30:3; 30:3; 30:14; 31:12

2 Samuel

23:7; 23:7

1 Kings

13:2; 16:18

2 Kings

17:31; 17:31; 23:11; 23:16; 23:20

1 Chronicles

14:12

2 Chronicles

16:14; 16:14; 34:5

Nehemiah

3:24; 4:2

Psalms

46:9; 80:16; 80:16

Proverbs

6:27

Isaiah

1:7; 1:7; 44:16; 44:19; 47:14; 47:14

Jeremiah

7:31; 19:5; 34:5; 36:25; 36:25; 36:27; 36:28; 36:29; 36:32; 38:17; 38:23; 39:8; 51:32

Ezekiel

5:4; 43:21

Amos

2:1; 2:1

Micah

1:7

H8313

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Strong's Number H8313 matches the Hebrew שָׂרַף (śārap̄),
which occurs 117 times in 107 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (1Sa 31:12–Jer 51:32)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:12 - all the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:7 - but the man who touches them
arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear,
and they are utterly consumed with fire.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:16 - (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - And the man cried against the altar by the word of the LORD and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:13 - He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 16:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:18 - And when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire and died,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:26 - and they brought out the pillar that was in the house of Baal and burned it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:31 - and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:11 - And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts.[fn] And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned,[fn] reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:16 - And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:20 - And he sacrificed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:9 - And he burned the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 14:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:12 - And they left their gods there, and David gave command, and they were burned.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:14 - They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer’s art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:5 - He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 36:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 36:19 - And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:2 - And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves?[fn] Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:9 - He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
he breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
he burns the chariots with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:8 - They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 80:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:16 - They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down;
may they perish at the rebuke of your face!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:27 - Can a man carry fire next to his chest
and his clothes not be burned?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:7 - Your country lies desolate;
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
foreigners devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:16 - Half of it he burns in the fire. Over the half he eats meat; he roasts it and is satisfied. Also he warms himself and says, “Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:19 - No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:14 - Behold, they are like stubble;
the fire consumes them;
they cannot deliver themselves
from the power of the flame.
No coal for warming oneself is this,
no fire to sit before!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:31 - And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:5 - and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind—

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:10 - For I have set my face against this city for harm and not for good, declares the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:29 - The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:2 - “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:5 - You shall die in peace. And as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so people shall burn spices for you and lament for you, saying, “Alas, lord!”’ For I have spoken the word, declares the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:22 - Behold, I will command, declares the LORD, and will bring them back to this city. And they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:25 - Even when Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:27 - Now after the king had burned the scroll with the words that Baruch wrote at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:28 - “Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:29 - And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says the LORD, You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cut off from it man and beast?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:32 - Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 37:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:8 - And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city. They shall capture it and burn it with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 37:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:10 - For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men, every man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:17 - Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then your life shall be spared, and this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:18 - But if you do not surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:23 - All your wives and your sons shall be led out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but shall be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burned with fire.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 39:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:8 - The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the house of the people, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 43:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:12 - I shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive. And he shall clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from there in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 43:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:13 - He shall break the obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt, and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:32 - the fords have been seized,
the marshes are burned with fire,
and the soldiers are in panic.

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