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Selected Verse: Matthew 23:38 - King James

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Mt 23:38 King James Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

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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:
 
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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.