Sanctuary Destroyed

The destruction of the temple began in the reign of Jehoiakim. At that time Nebuchadnezzar advanced on Jerusalem. He took some of the temple items with him when he returned to Babylon:

5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
6 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
7 Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the articles of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his temple at Babylon ( 2 Chron. 36).

Jehoiachin reigned next. Nebuchadnezzar then took him to Babylon along with valuable items from the temple (2 Chron. 36:9,10; 2 Ki. 24:8-16):

He [Nebuchadnezzar] carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, just as the LORD had said (2Ki 24:13).

The reign of Zedekiah followed Jehoiachin. He was eventually taken to Babylon. During his reign, the temple was plundered and destroyed.

2 Ch 36:17 Therefore He [the Lord] brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.
18 All the articles of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his officers, he brought them all to Babylon.
19 Then they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its fortified buildings with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles.

The Psalmist commented on the destruction of the temple as follows:

Ps. 74:3 Turn Your footsteps toward the perpetual ruins; The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.
4 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place; They have set up their own standards for signs.
5 It seems as if one had lifted up His axe in a forest of trees.
6 And now all its carved work They smash with hatchet and hammers.
7 They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.
8 They said in their heart, "Let us completely subdue them." They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.