Walking into the Pages
Stop 42 · Kings, Prophets and Return

Hinnom and the fall of Jerusalem

The city burned

Jerusalem, the stops of the bookKidron3131. Jerusalem, the City of David3232. Gihon and the Kidron3333. Moriah and the Temple Mount4242. Hinnom and the fall of Jerusalem4343. Nehemiah's wall4848. The Southern Steps5454. Bethesda6363. Siloam6666. Bethphage and the Mount of Olives6767. The Temple, again6868. Gethsemane6969. Caiaphas' house and Gallicantu7070. The Praetorium and the Via Dolorosa7171. Golgotha and the tomb7373. Mount Zion and the Upper Room7474. Jerusalem8484. Jerusalem, the New
From 30,000 feet

The valley where children were burned to Molech becomes the word for hell. Then Babylon comes, the walls come down, and the temple is ash. Exile.

Stop 42 of 84. This is Jerusalem. Next stop, Nehemiah's wall, is in the same city.

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2 Kings 25:1-12

1In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it. 2So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 4Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah. 5But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 6Then they captured the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him. 7They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 8Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 9He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire. 10All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem. 11Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude. 12But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

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