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Selected Verse: Matthew 23:38 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Mt 23:38 |
King James |
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Behold, your house--the temple, beyond all doubt; but their house now, not the Lord's. See on Mat 22:7.
is left unto you desolate--deserted, that is, of its Divine Inhabitant. But who is that? Hear the next words: |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Your house - The temple. The house of worship of the Jews. The chief ornament of Jerusalem.
Desolate - About to be desolate or destroyed. To be forsaken as a place of worship, and delivered into the hands of the Romans, and destroyed. See the notes at Matt. 24. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Behold your house - The temple, which is now your house, not God's: Is left unto you - Our Lord spake this as he was going out of it for the last time: Desolate - Forsaken of God and his Christ, and sentenced to utter destruction. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Behold, your house - Ο οικος, the temple: - this is certainly what is meant. It was once the Lord's temple, God's Own house; but now he says, Your temple or house - to intimate that God had abandoned it. See the note on Mat 23:21; see also on Luk 13:35 (note). |
7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.