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Rh of the wall broken down by Joaſh king of Iſrael, in Amaziah's reign, 2 Kings xvi. Not long after, Ahaz, the fifteenth king of Judah, impoveriſhed the temple, to preſent Tiglathpilnezer with the treaſures thereof, and Manaſſeh loſt what remained, I Chron. v.

And Nebuchadnezzar laid this glorious city with the temple, palace, walls and towers, even with the ground, 2 Kings xix. After eighteen month's ſiege, in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the ninth day of the fourth month, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, the princes of Babylon ſurpriſed and took this brave city; preſentiy after Nebuzar-aden, general of the Babylonian army, commanded by Nebuchadnezzar, ſpoiled the temple, carrying away the veſſels of gold and ſilver, and the great layer, given by king Solomon, and burnt the temple the firſt day of the next month, which was twenty-one days after the ſurpriſal, 470 years, ſix months, and ten days after the foundation; 903 years, ſix months, and ten days after the departure of the people out of Egypt; 1760 years, and ſix months after the flood; 3546 years, ſix months, and ten days after the creation. Thus, and then was the city of Jeruſalem taken, and for ſeventy years the Jews remained in this captivity.

It was built again by Nehemiah, 2 Chron. i, ii, iii, iv. The temple and city were ſpoiled again by Burgoſes, lieutenant to Artaxerxes,