Jeremiah 52:12-15

The Temple Burned

12 aIn the fifth month, on bthe tenth day of the month—that was cthe nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of BabylonNebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who dserved the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. 13And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. 14And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem. 15And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and ethe deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans.

Zechariah 7:3

3 fsaying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and gthe prophets, “Should I weep and habstain in ithe fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

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