Luke 23:30

“Then shall they begin to say, etc.] The Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions read, “then shall ye begin to say”; the tribulation being so great, as never was the like since the creation of the world, nor never will be to the end of it; and being so sore pressed with the sword and famine; with the enemy without, and divisions, robberies, and murders within; and their miseries being inexpressible, and intolerable, they will seek to go into the holes of the rocks, and caves of the earth, as is prophesied of them, (<230219>Isaiah 2:19) and as Josephus says, many of them did, when the city was taken; and, like those in (<281008>Hosea 10:8) will say, “to the mountains fall on us, and to the hills…”

“mountains . . . hills, &c.-- (Hos 10:8), flying hither and thither as they did in despair for shelter, during the siege; a very slight premonition of cries of another and more awful kind (Isa 2:10, Isa 2:19, Isa 2:21; Rev 6:16-17).”

“To the mountains, Fall on us ... - This is an image of great calamities and judgments. So great will be the calamities that they will seek for shelter from the storm, and will call on the hills to protect them. The same figure is used respecting the wicked in the day of judgment in Revelation 6:16-17. Compare also Isaiah 2:21. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Hos 10:8. Luke 23:31”

“23:30 People will beg the mountains, ‘Fall on us’: Death would be better than the extended agony and suffering that Jerusalem would experience.”

“Isa 2:19; Hos 10:8; Rev 6:16, Rev 9:6 Luke 23:31”