Luke 19:44
They will smash you to the ground, you and your children within you. They won't leave one stone on another within you, for you refused to accept salvation when it came to you.”
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45Jesus entered the Temple and began driving out all the people trading there.
Cross References
Psalms 137:9Happy is the one who grabs your children and smashes them against the rocks!
Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks have been allotted to your people and your holy city to deal with the rebellion, to put an end to sin, to forgive wrongdoing, to bring in everlasting goodness, to confirm the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
Matthew 23:37Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! So often I wanted to gather your children as a mother hen gathers her chicks under her wings—but you wouldn't let me.
Mark 13:2“You see all these great buildings?” Jesus replied. “Not one stone will be left on top of another. Everything will be torn down.”
Luke 1:78Through God's caring kindness to us, heaven's dawn will break upon us
Luke 19:42“I really wish today that you, even you, had known the path that leads to peace!” he said. “But now it's hidden from your eyes.
Matthew Henry on Luke 19:42-48
The Doom of Jerusalem Lamented; The Doom of Jerusalem Foretold. 41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not… Read the whole commentary →