Dan 2:34-35, 44-45, Mat 21:44, Luk 20:18 | TSK | STEP | a stone. was cut. without hands. or, which was not in hands. which.

in the days. Chal. in their days.That is, in the days of one of these kingdoms, (see Ru 1:1,) i.e, the Roman; in which the "God of heaven set up" the spiritual kingdom of the Messiah, which shall yet "become a great mountain, and fill the whole earth."

the God.

28,37

set up.

Ge 49:10; Ps 2:6-12; 72:1-20; 89:3,4,19-36; 110:1-4; Isa 9:6,7

Mt 3:2,3; 28:18; Eph 1:20-22

which shall never.

4:3,34; 6:26; 7:13,14; Ps 145:13; Eze 37:25; Mic 4:7; Lu 1:32,33

Joh 12:34; Re 11:15

kingdom. Chal. kingdom thereof. break.

8:25; Ps 2:9; 21:8,9; Isa 60:12; 1Co 15:24,25; Re 2:27; 19:15-20

thou sawest.

24,35; Isa 28:16; Zec 12:3; Mt 21:24

without hands. or, which was not in hands.

34; Lu 17:20; 2Co 10:4,5

the great.

De 10:17; 2Sa 7:22; 1Ch 16:25; Ne 4:14; 9:32; Job 36:26; Ps 48:1

Ps 96:4; 135:5; 145:3; Jer 32:18,19; Mal 1:11; Re 19:17

make known.

Ge 41:28,32; Mt 24:35; Re 1:19; 4:1

hereafter. Chal. after this.

Matthew 21:44

whosoever.

Ps 2:12; Isa 8:14,15; 60:12; Zec 12:3; Lu 20:18; Ro 9:33; 2Co 4:3,4

1Pe 2:8

but.

26:24; 27:25; Ps 2:9; 21:8,9; 110:5,6; Da 2:34,35,44,45; Joh 19:11

1Th 2:16; Heb 2:2,3

Luke 20:18

shall fall.This is an allusion to the Jewish mode of stoning. "The place of stoning was twice as high as a man. From the top of this one of the witnesses struck the culprit on the loins, and felled him to the ground: if he died of this, well; if not, the other witness threw a stone upon his heart," etc. Our Lord seems to refer not only to the dreadful crushing of the Jews by the Romans, but also to their general dispersion to the present day.

Isa 8:14,15; Da 2:34,35,44,45; Zec 12:3; Mt 21:34; 1Th 2:16