2 Kings 25:1-21
So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. He encamped outside the city and built siege works all around it. The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.
They fled toward the Arabah, but the Babylonian army pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his soldiers were separated from him and scattered, and he was captured.
They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.
On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. He set fire to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down. The whole Babylonian army under the commander of the imperial guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
So Judah went into captivity, away from her land.
The new puppet king also rebels. Jerusalem suffers a terrible 18-month siege. Zedekiah attempts to escape south but is caught and taken to Babylon. The city falls to the Babylonian army, is looted and utterly destroyed. All but the poorest people, left under governor Gedaliah, are taken into exile.
Why?
The last king of Judah Zedekiah still rebels against the king Nebuchadnezzar, so the destination of Jerusalem is ruined. Everything in the Temple and palace and people were captivity by Babylonia.
All of these come true as the word of the Lord said to Jeremiah.
The Lord has given many opportunities to Judah, but they refused to obey the word of the Lord and relied on Egypt and themselves.
God allowed Babylonians to destroy the whole Temple and articles and carried away from Jerusalem.
It means the Lord forsook Jerusalem and the symbol place, The Temple. And the ark is disappeared.
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西底家以為可以保住王位，耶利米一直勸王，不要倚靠埃及， 要西底家投降，但是王一直不聽。一些投降的百姓就是保住性命。用銅鍊鎖著，表示不當人看待，城裏60人普通百姓，不願意投降，一樣被殺。可8:35 因為，凡要救自己生命（或作：靈魂；下同）的，必喪掉生命；凡為我和福音喪掉生命的，必救了生命。
神的旨意不是要他們留在猶大，而是投降以後再回來。
所有房屋、城牆、聖殿都被拆毀，聖殿所有銅、金銀製品全部帶走。所羅門花許多心力建的聖殿已經不再是聖殿。當神不願意聽神的話，最後連聖殿這樣的敬拜的外表也保不住了。
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How?
To be a Christian is not rely on the visible Temple or church, but the heart and mind trust in the Lord. For God is a spirit, so we should worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
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