Matthew 23:38

Jesus declares that their house is left to them desolate. It announces judgment, with the temple and city abandoned to ruin.

Cross-references · 18

• Jer 22:5But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
• Luke 13:35Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
• Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
• Luke 21:6“As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
• Acts 6:13–14where they presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the law.
• 1 Kgs 9:7then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
• Luke 21:20But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
• Luke 19:43–44For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side.
• Mark 13:14So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
• Zech 14:1–2Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
• Jer 7:9–14Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
• Dan 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
• Matt 24:2“Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
• Ps 69:24Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.
• Zech 11:1–2Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!
• Isa 64:10–12Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
• Zech 11:6For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”
• 2 Chr 7:20–21then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

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