the Chaldeans burned, &c. On the tenth day of the fifth month. Compare Jeremiah 52:12; Jeremiah 52:13. The same day as the capture of the city by the Romans in A.D. 69.
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Jeremiah 39:8
8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.