Luke 19:46

ἔσται, אBL, for ἐστιν.

46. οἶκος προσευχῆς. Isaiah 56:7. See on Luke 1:10; Luke 18:10.

σπήλαιον λῃστῶν. ‘A brigands’ cave.’ Our Lord had seen many of these brigands’ caves (Jos. Antt. I. 12) on the steep rocky sides of the Wady Hamâm and elsewhere. Comp. Jeremiah 7:11, “Is this house which is called by my name become a den of robbers in your eyes?” It became still more a murderers’ cave when the sicarii made its pavement swim with blood (Jos. B. J. IV. 3, §§ 7, 10).