Nebuzaradan Directs Removal of the Temple Bronzeby emmanuel_higgins

2 Kings 25:8

And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:

The arrival at Jerusalem recorded here is the moment when the long-foretold calamity upon the temple came to pass. It came as divine judgment because Israel had broken God's commandments and persisted in sin. Jerusalem with its temple was destroyed, and the people were carried away into Babylonian captivity. Yet beforehand a few faithful servants were divinely shown what was about to happen, and they took the sacred ark containing the stone tablets and hid it in a cave, where it was never recovered.