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Later text
As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
Earlier text
2 Kings 8:12BSB
“Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”
Earlier text
Job 10:12BSB
You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
Earlier text
2 Kings 8:11BSB
Elisha fixed his gaze steadily on him until Hazael became uncomfortable. Then the man of God began to weep.
Earlier text
2 Kings 6:14BSB
the king of Aram sent horses, chariots, and a great army. They went there by night and surrounded the city.
Weeping over Jerusalem, Jesus foretells the horror of her coming siege: "They will level you to the ground — you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God" (Luke 19:44). The 2 Kings material supplies the Old Testament vocabulary of siege-atrocity: Elisha weeps as he foresees the evil Hazael will do to Israel — "You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women" (2 Kings 8:12; cf. the weeping prophet, 8:11). The connection is analogical: the prophet who weeps while foreseeing a city's devastation, and the stock language of children destroyed in a fallen city, stand behind Luke's portrait of Jesus lamenting Jerusalem's ruin. It is an echo of a pattern, not a citation — Hazael's cruelty is a prior instance of the judgment-horror, not a designed shadow of it. The telos is the tears themselves: the Judge who pronounces the sentence is first the Savior who weeps over the condemned, longing to gather them (13:34) — and the "visitation" they failed to recognize is God Himself come near in mercy, so that even the announcement of wrath is framed by a grief that will carry Him to a cross for the very city that rejects Him.