1Ki 9:7-8, 2Ch 7:20-21, Jer 26:18, Mic 3:12, Mat 24:2, Luk 19:41-44 | TSK | STEP

Zion.Josephus relates that Titus, after he had taken Jerusalem, ordered his soldiers to demolish it, except three of the largest and most beautiful towers, and the western wall of the city; all the rest was levelled, so that they who had never before seen it, could scarcely persuade themselves it had been inhabited. The Jewish writers also inform us, that Turnus Rufus, whom Titus had left in command, ploughed up the very foundations of the temple. When Dr. Richardson visited this sacred spot in 1818, he found one part of Mount Zion supporting a crop of barley, and another undergoing the labour of the plough: the soil turned up consisted of stone and lime mixed with earth, such as is usually met with in foundations of ruined cities. It is nearly a mile in circumference; is highest on the west side, and, towards the east, falls down in broad terraces on the upper part of the mountain as it slopes down toward the brook Kidron.

See on

Mic 3:12

Jerusalem. See on ch.

9:11; 51:37; 2Ki 19:25; Ne 4:2; Ps 79:1

the mountain.

17:3; Isa 2:2,3; Mic 4:1; Zec 8:3

Micah 3:12

Zion.

1:6; Ps 79:1; 107:34; Jer 26:18; Mt 24:2; Ac 6:13,14

the mountain.

4:1,2; Isa 2:2,3

Matthew 24:2

There.Josephus says that "Cæsar gave orders that they should now demolish the whole city and temple, except the three towers Phaselus, Hippicus, and Mariamne, and a part of the western wall; but all the rest was laid so completely even with the ground, by those who dug it up from the foundation, that there was nothing left to make those who came thither believe that it had ever been inhabited."

1Ki 9:7,8; Jer 26:18; Eze 7:20-22; Da 9:26,27; Mic 3:12; Lu 19:44

2Pe 3:11

Luke 19:41-44

and wept.

Ps 119:53,136,158; Jer 9:1; 13:17; 17:16; Ho 11:8; Joh 11:35

Ro 9:2,3

If.

De 5:29; 32:29; Ps 81:13; Isa 48:18; Eze 18:31,32; 33:11

in this.

44; Ps 32:6; 95:7,8; Isa 55:6; Joh 12:35,36; 2Co 6:1,2

the things.

1:77-79; 2:10-14; 10:5,6; Ac 10:36; 13:46; Heb 3:7,13,15; 10:26-29

Heb 12:24-26

but.

Isa 6:9,10; 29:10-14; 44:18; Mt 13:14,15; Joh 12:38-41; Ac 28:25-27

Ro 11:7-10; 2Co 3:14-16; 4:3,4; 2Th 2:9-12

the days.

21:20-24; De 28:49-58; Ps 37:12,13; Da 9:26,27; Mt 22:7; 23:37-39

Mr 13:14-20; 1Th 2:15,16

cast.Or, "cast a bank" or rampart [charax .] This was literally fulfilled when Jerusalem was besieged by Titus; who surrounded it with a wall of circumvallation in three days, though not less than 39 furlongs in circumference; and when this was effected, the Jews were so enclosed on every side, that no person could escape from the city, and no provision could be brought in.

Isa 29:1-4; Jer 6:3-6

lay.

1Ki 9:7,8; Mic 3:12

thy children.

13:34,35; Mt 23:37,38

leave.

21:6; Mt 24:2; Mr 13:2

because.

42; 1:68,78; La 1:8; Da 9:24; Joh 3:18-21; 1Pe 2:12