Text: Lamentations 1:10
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 23:3
Subject: Enemy entering into Lady Jerusalem's holy place (B) (* see assembly network)
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Lamentations 1:10 depicts nations entering Jerusalem's מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdash, "sanctuary"), the very peoples Deuteronomy 23:3 excluded from the קָהָל (qahal, "assembly") of the LORD. The poet's horror derives precisely from the Deuteronomic prohibition: the Ammonites and Moabites whom God forbade from His assembly have now overrun the holy place itself. This reversal exposes the devastating consequence of Israel's own covenant violations -- the sanctuary meant to be guarded from outsiders has been handed over to them by God Himself as an act of judgment. The allusion transforms Deuteronomy's exclusion law into a measure of the catastrophe's magnitude.