Let their habitation be desolate
Which is applied to Judas, ( Acts 1:20 ) ; but not to
the exclusion of others; for it must be understood of the
habitations of others; even of their princes and nobles, their
chief magistrates, high priest and other priests, scribes, and
doctors of the law: for the word may be rendered, "their palace"
or "castle" F11, as it is by some; and so may
denote the houses of their principal men, the members of their
sanhedrim; their houses great and fair, of which there were many
in Jerusalem when it was destroyed; see ( Isaiah 5:9 ) ; as well
as the habitations of the meaner sort of people, which all became
desolate at that time; and particularly their house, the temple,
which was like a palace or castle, built upon a mountain. This
was left desolate, as our Lord foretold it would, ( Matthew
23:38 ) ;
[and] let none dwell in their tents;
the city of Jerusalem was wholly destroyed and not a house left
standing in it, nor an inhabitant of it; it was laid even with
the ground, ploughed up, and not one stone left upon another, (
Luke 19:44 ) .