Matthew 23:38 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁸Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Matthew 23:38 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 22:5
But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
Luke 13:35
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.
Luke 21:24
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
1 Kings 9:7
Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
Luke 21:6
As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Armory Deafness Godlessness Heart Impenitence Israel, Prophecies Concerning Jebus

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 34-39)

We have left the blind leaders fallen into the ditch, under Christ’s sentence, into the damnation of hell; let us see what will become of the blind followers, of the body of the Jewish church, and particularly Jerusalem. I. Jesus Christ designs yet to try them with the means of grace; I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes. The connection is strange; “ You are a generation of vipers,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 38)

38. Behold, your house--the temple, beyond all doubt; but their house now, not the Lord’s. See on Mt 22:7. is left unto you desolate--deserted, that is, of its Divine Inhabitant. But who is that? Hear the next words: