Luke 13:34

O Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, she who kills the Neviim and stones the ones sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your yeladim just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing!

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

In Context

33Nevertheless, it is necessary for me to travel on hayom (today) and makhar (tomorrow) and the yom following, because it cannot be that a navi should have his violent death and his histalkus (passing) outside Yerushalayim.

35Hinei your Beis + 13:35 HaMikdash is left to you desolate; and I say to you, you shall by no means see me until the zman (time) comes when you say, BARUCH HABAH B'SHEM ADONAI! + 13:35 Jer 12:17; Ps 118:26; Ro 11:26

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:11As a nesher stirreth up her ken (nest), 1 fluttereth over her young, 1 spreadeth her wings, taketh them up, 1 beareth them on her wings, 1

Ruth 2:12Hashem recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of Hashem Elohei Yisroel, under Whose wings thou art come to seek refuge.

2 Chronicles 36:15And Hashem Elohei Avoteihem sent to them by His malachim, time and again; because He took pity on His people and on His Ma'on (Dwelling Place);

Nehemiah 9:30Yet many shanim didst Thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by Thy Ruach + 9:30 Hakodesh by Thy nevi'im; yet would they not give ear; therefore gavest Thou them into the yad of the peoples of the lands.

Psalms 36:7Thy tzedakah is like the great mountains; 1 Thy mishpatim are tehom rabbah (a great deep); 1 Hashem, Thou preservest adam (man) and behemah (beast). 1

Psalms 81:10There shall no el zar (strange, foreign g-d) be among thee; 1 neither shalt thou worship any el nechar (foreign g-d). 1

Matthew Henry on Luke 13:32-35

Christ's Message to Herod. 31 The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee. 32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected. 33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem. 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that… Read the whole commentary →

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