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1 Machabæorum 24:6
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ye shall hear: Jeremiah 4:19-22, Jeremiah 6:22-24, Jeremiah 8:15, Jeremiah 8:16, Jeremiah 47:6, Ezekiel 7:24-26, Ezekiel 14:17-21, Ezekiel 21:9-15, Ezekiel 21:28, Daniel 11:1-45, Mark 13:7, Mark 13:8, Luke 21:9
see: Psalms 27:1-3, Psalms 46:1-3, Psalms 112:7, Isaiah 8:12-14, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 26:3, Isaiah 26:4, Isaiah 26:20, Isaiah 26:21, Habakkuk 3:16-18, Luke 21:19, John 14:1, John 14:27, 2 Thessalonians 2:2, 1 Peter 3:14, 1 Peter 3:15
must: Matthew 26:54, Luke 22:37, Acts 27:24-26
but: Matthew 24:14, Daniel 9:24-27
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:15 - the earth quaked 2 Chronicles 15:5 - great vexations Job 5:20 - in war Psalms 91:6 - destruction Proverbs 3:25 - Be Isaiah 7:4 - fear not Jeremiah 49:14 - heard Jeremiah 51:46 - lest Daniel 9:26 - and the end Obadiah 1:1 - We Matthew 24:13 - General 1 Thessalonians 2:16 - for
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars,.... This is the second sign of the destruction of Jerusalem: it is observable that this, and some of the following signs, are given by the Jews, as signs of the Messiah's coming; whereas they were forerunners of their ruin, for the rejection of him who was already come. They suppose the Messiah will come in the seventh year, or the year of rest and release:
"On the seventh year (they say h) will be מלחמות, "wars": and in the going out, or at the close of the seventh year, the son of David will come.''
Which wars, the gloss says, will be between the nations of the world, and Israel. Here wars may mean the commotions, insurrections, and seditions, against the Romans, and their governors; and the intestine slaughters committed among them, some time before the siege of Jerusalem, and the destruction of it. Under Cureanus the Roman governor, a sedition was raised on the day of the passover, in which twenty thousand perished; after that, in another tumult, ten thousand were destroyed by cut-throats: in Ascalon two thousand more, in Ptolemais two thousand, at Alexandria fifty thousand, at Damascus ten thousand, and elsewhere in great numbers i. The Jews were also put into great consternation, upon hearing the design of the Roman emperor, to put up his image in their temple:
see that ye be not troubled; so as to leave the land of Judea as yet, and quit the preaching of the Gospel there, as if the final destruction was just at hand;
for all these things must come to pass; these wars and the reports of them and the panic on account of them; these commotions and slaughters, and terrible devastations by the sword must be; being determined by God, predicted by Christ, and brought upon the Jews by their own wickedness; and suffered in righteous judgment, for their sin:
but the end is not yet; meaning not the end of the world, but the end of Jerusalem, and the temple, the end of the Jewish state; which were to continue, and did continue after these disturbances in it.
h T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 97. 1. & Megilia, fol. 17. 2. Zohar in Exod. fol. 3. 3, 4. i Vid. Joseph. Antiq. l. 20. c. 6. & de Bello Jud. l. 2, &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And ye shall hear of wars ... - It is recorded in the history of Rome that violent agitations prevailed in the Roman empire previous to the destruction of Jerusalem. Four emperors, Nero, Galba, Otho, and Vitellius, suffered violent deaths in the short space of eighteen months. In consequence of these changes in the government, there were commotions throughout the empire. Parties were formed, and bloody and violent wars were the consequence of attachment to particular emperors. This is the more remarkable, as at the time that the prophecy was made, the empire was in a state of peace.
Rumours of wars - Wars declared or threatened, but not carried into execution. Josephus says that Bardanes, and after him Vologeses, declared war against the Jews, but it was not carried into execution, Antig. xx. 34. He also says that Vitellius, governor of Syria, declared war against Aretas, king of Arabia, and wished to lead his army through Palestine, but the death of Tiberius prevented the war, Antiq. xviii. 5. 3.
The end is not yet - The end of the Jewish economy; the destruction of Jerusalem will not immediately follow. Be not, therefore, alarmed when you hear of those commotions. Other signs will warn you when to be alarmed and seek security.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
The SECOND sign, wars and commotions.
Verse Matthew 24:6. The next signs given by our Lord are wars and rumours of wars, c.] These may be seen in Josephus, Ant. b. xviii. c. 9 War, b. ii. c. 10; especially as to the rumours of wars, when Caligula ordered his statue to be set up in the temple of God, which the Jews having refused, had every reason to expect a war with the Romans, and were in such consternation on the occasion that they even neglected to till their land.