Luke 19:44
they will trample you down and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone on another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
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45Jesus went into the Temple Courts and began to drive out those who were selling,
Cross References
Psalms 137:9Happy are they who seize and dash your children against the rocks.
Matthew 23:37Jerusalem! Jerusalem! She who slays the prophets and stones the messengers sent to her – Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not come!
Mark 13:2“Do you see these great buildings?” asked Jesus. “Not a single stone will be left here on another, which will not be thrown down.”
Luke 1:78through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn will break on us from heaven,
Luke 19:42“If only you had known, while yet there was time – even you – the things that make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your sight.
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 →