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  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "kind": "event",
  "id": "jerusalem-temple-burned",
  "era": "exile-return",
  "order": 226,
  "title": "The temple burns and more people are deported",
  "group": "jerusalem-fall",
  "date": {
    "kind": "relative",
    "label": "Judah · Nebuchadnezzar’s nineteenth year in Kings"
  },
  "pin": [
    35.234167,
    31.776667
  ],
  "pinConfidence": "Identified site",
  "pinPlace": "openbible-a15257a",
  "summary": "Nebuzaradan burns the temple, palace and major buildings, breaks down Jerusalem’s walls and deports survivors. The temple’s metalwork is dismantled and taken away. Priests, officials and others are executed at Riblah, while some of the poorest people remain to work the land.",
  "context": "The destruction reverses the building and dedication stories of Solomon. The chapter does not say that the land becomes completely empty. Kings and Jeremiah give different day numbers for the destruction account; the atlas does not manufacture a single exact day or settle the commonly discussed 587/586 BC dating here.",
  "question": "What is lost besides buildings, and who remains in the land?",
  "locationNote": "Jerusalem and Babylon identify the principal localities; Riblah is proposed. The map does not reconstruct each building’s burn layer or the route taken with its treasures.",
  "passages": [
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 25:8–21",
      "range": [
        12025008,
        12025021
      ],
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2025%3A8%E2%80%9321&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "2 Kings",
          "chapter": 25,
          "verse": 8,
          "text": "On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem."
        },
        {
          "book": "2 Kings",
          "chapter": 25,
          "verse": 9,
          "text": "He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building."
        },
        {
          "book": "2 Kings",
          "chapter": 25,
          "verse": 10,
          "text": "And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem."
        },
        {
          "book": "2 Kings",
          "chapter": 25,
          "verse": 11,
          "text": "Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the population."
        },
        {
          "book": "2 Kings",
          "chapter": 25,
          "verse": 12,
          "text": "But the captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields."
        },
        {
          "book": "2 Kings",
          "chapter": 25,
          "verse": 13,
          "text": "Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon."
        },
        {
          "book": "2 Kings",
          "chapter": 25,
          "verse": 14,
          "text": "They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service."
        },
        {
          "book": "2 Kings",
          "chapter": 25,
          "verse": 15,
          "text": "The captain of the guard also took away the censers and sprinkling bowls—anything made of pure gold or fine silver."
        },
        {
          "book": "2 Kings",
          "chapter": 25,
          "verse": 16,
          "text": "As for the two pillars, the Sea, and the movable stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure."
        },
        {
          "book": "2 Kings",
          "chapter": 25,
          "verse": 17,
          "text": "Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall. The bronze capital atop one pillar was three cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its network, was similar."
        },
        {
          "book": "2 Kings",
          "chapter": 25,
          "verse": 18,
          "text": "The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers."
        },
        {
          "book": "2 Kings",
          "chapter": 25,
          "verse": 19,
          "text": "Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as five royal advisors. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city."
        },
        {
          "book": "2 Kings",
          "chapter": 25,
          "verse": 20,
          "text": "Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah."
        },
        {
          "book": "2 Kings",
          "chapter": 25,
          "verse": 21,
          "text": "There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        24052012,
        24052027
      ],
      "kind": "parallel",
      "note": "Jeremiah gives a parallel account with some differing date and numerical details.",
      "reference": "Jeremiah 52:12–27",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052%3A12%E2%80%9327&version=BSB"
    },
    {
      "range": [
        11007015,
        11007026
      ],
      "kind": "recollection",
      "note": "The dismantled pillars and bronze Sea recall Solomon’s temple furnishings.",
      "reference": "1 Kings 7:15–26",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Kings%207%3A15%E2%80%9326&version=BSB"
    }
  ],
  "places": [
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      "id": "openbible-a15257a",
      "name": "Jerusalem",
      "coordinate": [
        35.234167,
        31.776667
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      "kind": "City",
      "confidence": "Identified site",
      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
      "sources": [
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          "label": "OpenBible.info: Jerusalem (CC BY 4.0)",
          "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/a15257a/jerusalem"
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    },
    {
      "id": "openbible-a217d18",
      "name": "Babylon",
      "coordinate": [
        44.422222,
        32.543333
      ],
      "kind": "City",
      "confidence": "Identified site",
      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
      "sources": [
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          "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/a217d18/babylon-1"
        }
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      "id": "openbible-ab2bde8",
      "name": "Riblah",
      "coordinate": [
        36.572623,
        34.459547
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      "kind": "City",
      "confidence": "Proposed site",
      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
      "sources": [
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          "label": "OpenBible.info: Riblah (CC BY 4.0)",
          "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/ab2bde8/riblah-1"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "mapPeriod": "neo-babylonian",
  "further": [
    {
      "label": "OpenBible.info: Jerusalem (CC BY 4.0)",
      "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/a15257a/jerusalem"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/exile-return.json"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Exile & Return",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=jerusalem-temple-burned",
  "attribution": [
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/jerusalem-temple-burned/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/jerusalem-temple-burned/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/jerusalem-temple-burned/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "c9b9e59e7e2000b2"
}