Luke 19:43

43 For days will come upon you and your enemies will put up an embankment against you, and will surround you and press you hard from all directions.

Luke 19:43 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 19:43

For the days shall come upon thee
Suddenly, and very quickly, as they did within forty years after this:

that thine enemies;
the Romans, and such the Jews took them to be, and might easily understand who our Lord meant:

shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep
thee in on every side:
which was not only verified in the Roman armies closely besieging them; but particularly in this, as Josephus relates ^F20 that Titus built a wall about the city, of thirty nine furlongs long, and thirteen forts in it which reached ten furlongs, and all done in three days time; by which means they were pent up, starved, and famished, and reduced to inexpressible distress.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 8.

Luke 19:43 In-Context

41 And when he approached [and] saw the city, he wept over it,

42 saying, "If you had known on this day--even you--the things [that make] for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

43 For days will come upon you and your enemies will put up an embankment against you, and will surround you and press you hard from all directions.

44 And they will raze you to the ground, [you] and your children within you, and will not leave a stone upon a stone within you, {because} you did not recognize the time of your visitation."

45 And he entered into the temple [courts] [and] began to drive out those who were selling,

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "a palisade" (the term can refer to either a wooden or an earthen barricade)