Tobit 14:4

Deuterocanon

4 and hurry off to Media, for I believe the word of God that Nahum spoke about Nineveh, that all these things will take place and overtake Assyria and Nineveh. Indeed, everything that was spoken by the prophets of Israel, whom God sent, will occur. None of all their words will fail, but all will come true at their appointed times. So it will be safer in Media than in Assyria and Babylon. For I know and believe that whatever God has said will be fulfilled and will come true; not a single word of the prophecies will fail. All of our kindred, inhabitants of the land of Israel, will be scattered and taken as captives from the good land; and the whole land of Israel will be desolate, even Samaria and Jerusalem will be desolate. And the temple of God in it will be burned to the ground, and it will be desolate for a while. 5 "But God will again have mercy on them, and God will bring them back into the land of Israel; and they will rebuild the temple of God, but not like the first one until the period when the times of fulfillment shall come. After this they all will return from their exile and will rebuild Jerusalem in splendor; and in it the temple of God will be rebuilt, just as the prophets of Israel have said concerning it.

Matthew 23:36

New Testament

33 “For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town, 34 so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 35 I tell you the truth, this generation will be held responsible for all these things! 36 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it! 37 Look, your house is left to you desolate! 38 For I tell you, you will not see me from now until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

 Notes and References

"... This theology dominates the present text which often carries the pattern of sin—punishment—exile—repentance—return. A good many of the passages on this theme have been dated by scholars to the Persian period. Judah had been punished for her sins by being removed from the land, but the punishment was now complete, and YHWH had intervened to cause her to return. Another theme also appears: the concept of the purified remnant ... We do not have much information on the subject from the first part of the Greek period. A book such as Tobit, which is likely to be from this time, suggests how those in the Diaspora lived and thought, including how they continued to look toward Jerusalem where the surviving Israelites would return to rebuild the temple (Tobit 14:4–7). Whether the doctrine of the land was used as an excuse for Hasmonean expansion is a question, though Jubilees and the fragments of Eupolemus might suggest this ..."

Grabbe, Lester L. Judaic Religion in the Second Temple Period: Belief and Practice from the Exile to Yavneh (pp. 298-300) Routledge, 2000

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