And burnt the house of the Lord,.... The temple built by Solomon, after it had stood four hundred and seventy years, six months, and ten days, according to Josephus z: but the Jews say it stood but four hundred ten years a:
and the king's house; the royal palace; probably that which was built by Solomon, 1 Kings 7:1;
and all the houses of Jerusalem: of any note or strength:
and all the houses of the great [men] burnt he with fire; of the princes and nobles in Jerusalem; it is in the singular number, "and every house of the great one"; or "every great house" b; Jarchi interprets it of the synagogue, where prayer was magnified; and others, he says, understood it of the schools, where the law was magnified.
z Autiqu. l. 10. c. 8. sect. 5. a T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 3. 2. Gloss. in ib. b ואת כל בית הגדול "omnem domum magnatis", Cocceius "omnemque domum magnam", Pagninus, Montanus, Schmidt.