2For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
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And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. …
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved: …
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! …
But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not,(let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)God’s providences concerning his church are here represented as strangely changing and strangely mixed. I. As strangely changing. Sometimes the tide runs high and strong against them, but presently it turns, and comes to be in favour of them; and God has, for wise and holy ends, set the one over against the other. 1. God here appears against Jerusalem; judgment begins at the house of God. When the…
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