Luke 19:43 Cross References

Luke 19:43

43: Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you.

First he will destroy your mainland villages. Then he will attack you by building a siege wall, constructing a ramp, and raising a roof of shields against you.

"Destruction is certain for Ariel, the City of David. Year after year you offer your many sacrifices.
Yet I will bring disaster upon you, and there will be much weeping and sorrow. For Jerusalem will become as her name Ariel means--an altar covered with blood.
I will be your enemy, surrounding Jerusalem and attacking its walls. I will build siege towers around it and will destroy it.
Your voice will whisper like a ghost from the earth where you will lie buried.

Build siege ramps against the city walls. Surround it with enemy camps and battering rams.

"And when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you will know that the time of its destruction has arrived.
Then those in Judea must flee to the hills. Let those in Jerusalem escape, and those outside the city should not enter it for shelter.
For those will be days of God's vengeance, and the prophetic words of the Scriptures will be fulfilled.
How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for mothers nursing their babies. For there will be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.
They will be brutally killed by the sword or sent away as captives to all the nations of the world. And Jerusalem will be conquered and trampled down by the Gentiles until the age of the Gentiles comes to an end.

Enemy shepherds will surround you. They will set up camp around the city and divide your pastures for their flocks.
They shout, `Prepare for battle and attack at noon! But now the day is fading, and the evening shadows are falling.
So let us attack by night and destroy her palaces!'"
This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Cut down the trees for battering rams. Build ramps against the walls of Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished, for she is wicked through and through.

"After this period of sixty-two sets of seven, the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing, and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple. The end will come with a flood, and war and its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end.
He will make a treaty with the people for a period of one set of seven, but after half this time, he will put an end to the sacrifices and offerings. Then as a climax to all his terrible deeds, he will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration, until the end that has been decreed is poured out on this defiler."

"And this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: His armies will not enter Jerusalem to shoot their arrows. They will not march outside its gates with their shields and build banks of earth against its walls.

"The LORD will bring a distant nation against you from the end of the earth, and it will swoop down on you like an eagle. It is a nation whose language you do not understand,
a fierce and heartless nation that shows no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
Its armies will devour your livestock and crops, and you will starve to death. They will leave you no grain, new wine, olive oil, calves, or lambs, bringing about your destruction.
They will lay siege to your cities until all the fortified walls in your land--the walls you trusted to protect you--are knocked down. They will attack all the towns in the land the LORD your God has given you.
The siege will be so severe that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn't let me.
And now look, your house is left to you, empty and desolate.
For I tell you this, you will never see me again until you say, 'Bless the one who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

"Then the king became furious. He sent out his army to destroy the murderers and burn their city.

"The time will come when you will see the sacrilegious object that causes desecration standing where it should not be"--reader, pay attention! "Then those in Judea must flee to the hills.
A person outside the house must not go back into the house to pack.
A person in the field must not return even to get a coat.
How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for mothers nursing their babies in those days.
And pray that your flight will not be in winter.

For some of the Jews had killed their own prophets, and some even killed the Lord Jesus. Now they have persecuted us and driven us out. They displease God and oppose everyone
by trying to keep us from preaching the Good News to the Gentiles, for fear some might be saved. By doing this, they continue to pile up their sins. But the anger of God has caught up with them at last.

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