Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Jeremiah 39:8
burned . . . the houses— (Jeremiah 52:12-13). Not immediately after the taking of the city, but in the month after, namely, the fifth month (compare Jeremiah 39:2). The delay was probably caused by the princes having to send to Riblah to know the king's pleasure as to the city.
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