Luke 19:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

LUKE CHAPTER 19 Luke 19:1-10 Christ visiteth Zacchaeus the publican. Luke 19:11-27 The parable of a nobleman who left money with his servants to trade with in his absence. Luke 19:28-40 Christ rideth in triumph into Jerusalem. Luke 19:41-44 He weepeth over the city, Luke 19:45,46 driveth the buyers and sellers out of the temple, Luke 19:47,48 teacheth daily therein: the rulers seek to destroy him. Jericho was a very rich city, in the tribe of Benjamin, less than twenty miles distance from Jerusalem, (whither our Saviour was going), and less than eight miles distance from Jordan: See Poole on "Numbers 22:1". It was the first place which Joshua sent persons to spy out, before he had conducted the Israelites over Jordan, Joshua 2:1-24; he took it, Joshua 6:1-27, and cursed the man that should rebuild it, for he burned it, Joshua 6:24. He prophesied, that he who should go about to rebuild it, should lay the foundation of it in his first born, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son; which accordingly fell out in Ahab's time, to one Hiel, a Bethelite, 1 Kings 16:34. Through this town, or city, which now had been rebuilt many years, our Saviour passeth in his way to Jerusalem.