1 Kings 9:7-8

9:7 then I will remove Israel from the land ¹  I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, ²  and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed ³  among all the nations. 9:8 This temple will become a heap of ruins; ⁴  everyone who passes by it will be shocked and will hiss out their scorn, ⁵  saying, ‘Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?’

1 Kings 9:2

9:2 the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. ⁶ 

1 Kings 7:20-21

7:20 On the top of each pillar, right above the bulge beside the latticework, there were two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments arranged in rows all the way around. ⁷  7:21 He set up the pillars on the porch in front of the main hall. He erected one pillar on the right ⁸  side and called it Jakin; ⁹  he erected the other pillar on the left ¹⁰  side and called it Boaz. ¹¹ 

Jeremiah 26:18

26:18 “Micah from Moresheth ¹²  prophesied during the time Hezekiah was king of Judah. ¹³  He told all the people of Judah,

‘The Lord who rules over all ¹⁴  says,

“Zion ¹⁵  will become a plowed field.

Jerusalem ¹⁶  will become a pile of rubble.

The temple mount will become a mere wooded ridge.”’ ¹⁷ 

Micah 3:12

3:12 Therefore, because of you, ¹⁸  Zion will be plowed up like ¹⁹  a field,

Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,

and the Temple Mount ²⁰  will become a hill overgrown with brush! ²¹ 

Matthew 24:2

24:2 And he said to them, ²²  “Do you see all these things? I tell you the truth, ²³  not one stone will be left on another. ²⁴  All will be torn down!” ²⁵ 

Luke 19:41-44

Jesus Weeps for Jerusalem under Judgment

19:41 Now ²⁶  when Jesus ²⁷  approached ²⁸  and saw the city, he wept over it, 19:42 saying, “If you had only known on this day, ²⁹  even you, the things that make for peace! ³⁰  But now they are hidden ³¹  from your eyes. 19:43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build ³²  an embankment ³³  against you and surround you and close in on you from every side. 19:44 They will demolish you ³⁴  – you and your children within your walls ³⁵  – and they will not leave within you one stone ³⁶  on top of another, ³⁷  because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.” ³⁸ 

Luke 21:6

21:6 “As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. ³⁹  All will be torn down!” ⁴⁰ 

Acts 6:14

6:14 For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs ⁴¹  that Moses handed down to us.”

Revelation 11:2

11:2 But ⁴²  do not measure the outer courtyard ⁴³  of the temple; leave it out, ⁴⁴  because it has been given to the Gentiles, ⁴⁵  and they will trample on the holy city ⁴⁶  for forty-two months.

[9:7]  ¹ tn Heb “I will cut off Israel from upon the surface of the land.”

[9:7]  ² tn Heb “and the temple which I consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face.”

[9:7]  ³ tn Heb “will become a proverb and a taunt,” that is, a proverbial example of destruction and an object of reproach.

[9:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “and this house will be high [or elevated].” The statement makes little sense in this context, which predicts the desolation that judgment will bring. Some treat the clause as concessive, “Even though this temple is lofty [now].” Others, following the lead of several ancient versions, emend the text to, “this temple will become a heap of ruins.”

[9:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “hiss,” or perhaps “whistle.” This refers to a derisive sound one would make when taunting an object of ridicule.

[9:2]  ⁶ sn In the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon. See 1 Kgs 3:5.

[7:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the capitals on the two pillars, also above, close beside the bulge which was beside the latticework, two hundred pomegranates in rows around, on the second capital.” The precise meaning of the word translated “bulge” is uncertain.

[7:21]  ⁸ tn Or “south.”

[7:21]  ⁹ sn The name Jakin appears to be a verbal form and probably means, “he establishes.”

[7:21]  ¹⁰ tn Or “north.”

[7:21]  ¹¹ sn The meaning of the name Boaz is uncertain. For various proposals, see BDB 126-27 s.v. בעז. One attractive option is to revocalize the name as בְּעֹז (be’oz, “in strength”) and to understand it as completing the verbal form on the first pillar. Taking the words together and reading from right to left, one can translate the sentence, “he establishes [it] in strength.”

[26:18]  ¹² sn Micah from Moresheth was a contemporary of Isaiah (compare Mic 1:1 with Isa 1:1) from the country town of Moresheth in the hill country southwest of Jerusalem. The prophecy referred to is found in Mic 3:12. This is the only time in the OT where an OT prophet is quoted verbatim and identified.

[26:18]  ¹³ sn Hezekiah was co-regent with his father Ahaz from 729-715 b.c. and sole ruler from 715-686 b.c. His father was a wicked king who was responsible for the incursions of the Assyrians (2 Kgs 16; 2 Chr 28). Hezekiah was a godly king, noted for his religious reforms and for his faith in the Lord in the face of the Assyrian threat (2 Kgs 18–19; 2 Chr 32:1-23). The deliverance of Jerusalem in response to his prayers of faith (2 Kgs 19:14-19, 29-36) was undoubtedly well-known to the people of Jerusalem and Judah and may have been one of the prime reasons for their misplaced trust in the inviolability of Zion/Jerusalem (see Ps 46, 76) though the people of Micah’s day already believed it too (Mic 3:11).

[26:18]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Yahweh of armies.”

[26:18]  ¹⁵ sn Zion was first of all the citadel that David captured (2 Sam 5:6-10), then the city of David and the enclosed temple area, then the whole city of Jerusalem. It is often in poetic parallelism with Jerusalem as it is here (see, e.g., Ps 76:2; Amos 1:2).

[26:18]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[26:18]  ¹⁷ sn There is irony involved in this statement. The text reads literally “high places of a forest/thicket.” The “high places” were the illicit places of worship that Jerusalem was supposed to replace. Because of their sin, Jerusalem would be like one of the pagan places of worship with no place left sacrosanct. It would even be overgrown with trees and bushes. So much for its inviolability!

[3:12]  ¹⁸ tn The plural pronoun refers to the leaders, priests, and prophets mentioned in the preceding verse.

[3:12]  ¹⁹ tn Or “into” (an adverbial accusative of result).

[3:12]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the mountain of the house” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV).

[3:12]  ²¹ tn Heb “a high place of overgrowth.”

[24:2]  ²² tn Grk “answering, he said to them.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (ajpokriqei") is redundant in English and has not been translated.

[24:2]  ²³ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[24:2]  ²⁴ sn With the statement not one stone will be left on another Jesus predicted the total destruction of the temple, something that did occur in a.d. 70.

[24:2]  ²⁵ tn Grk “not one stone will be left here on another which will not be thrown down.”

[19:41]  ²⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

[19:41]  ²⁷ tn Grk “he.”

[19:41]  ²⁸ sn When Jesus approached and saw the city. This is the last travel note in Luke’s account (the so-called Jerusalem journey), as Jesus approached and saw the city before entering it.

[19:42]  ²⁹ sn On this day. They had missed the time of Messiah’s coming; see v. 44.

[19:42]  ³⁰ tn Grk “the things toward peace.” This expression seems to mean “the things that would ‘lead to,’ ‘bring about,’ or ‘make for’ peace.”

[19:42]  ³¹ sn But now they are hidden from your eyes. This becomes an oracle of doom in the classic OT sense; see Luke 13:31-35; 11:49-51; Jer 9:2; 13:7; 14:7. They are now blind and under judgment (Jer 15:5; Ps 122:6).

[19:43]  ³² sn Jesus now predicted the events that would be fulfilled in the fall of Jerusalem in a.d. 70. The details of the siege have led some to see Luke writing this after Jerusalem’s fall, but the language of the verse is like God’s exilic judgment for covenant unfaithfulness (Hab 2:8; Jer 6:6, 14; 8:13-22; 9:1; Ezek 4:2; 26:8; Isa 29:1-4). Specific details are lacking and the procedures described (build an embankment against you) were standard Roman military tactics.

[19:43]  ³³ sn An embankment refers to either wooden barricades or earthworks, or a combination of the two.

[19:44]  ³⁴ tn Grk “They will raze you to the ground.”

[19:44]  ³⁵ tn Grk “your children within you.” The phrase “[your] walls” has been supplied in the translation to clarify that the city of Jerusalem, metaphorically pictured as an individual, is spoken of here.

[19:44]  ³⁶ sn (Not) one stone on top of another is an idiom for total destruction.

[19:44]  ³⁷ tn Grk “leave stone on stone.”

[19:44]  ³⁸ tn Grk “the time of your visitation.” To clarify what this refers to, the words “from God” are supplied at the end of the verse, although they do not occur in the Greek text.

[21:6]  ³⁹ sn With the statement days will come when not one stone will be left on another Jesus predicted the total destruction of the temple, something that did occur in a.d. 70.

[21:6]  ⁴⁰ tn Grk “the days will come when not one stone will be left on another that will not be thrown down.”

[6:14]  ⁴¹ tn Or “practices.”

[11:2]  ⁴² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

[11:2]  ⁴³ tn On the term αὐλήν (aulhn) BDAG 150 s.v. αὐλή 1 states, “(outer) court of the temple…Rv 11:2.”

[11:2]  ⁴⁴ tn The precise meaning of the phrase ἔκβαλε ἔξωθεν (ekbale exwqen) is difficult to determine.

[11:2]  ⁴⁵ tn Or “to the nations” (the same Greek word may be translated “Gentiles” or “nations”).

[11:2]  ⁴⁶ sn The holy city appears to be a reference to Jerusalem. See also Luke 21:24.