¹⁷ “If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much earth^(A) as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but the Lord.

¹⁸ But may the Lord forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to bow down and he is leaning^(A) on my arm and I have to bow there also—when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this.”

⁹ Then they said to each other, “What we’re doing is not right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let’s go at once and report this to the royal palace.”

¹⁰ So they went and called out to the city gatekeepers and told them, “We went into the Aramean camp and no one was there—not a sound of anyone—only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents left just as they were.” ¹¹ The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported within the palace.

¹² The king got up in the night and said to his officers, “I will tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving; so they have left the camp to hide^(A) in the countryside, thinking, ‘They will surely come out, and then we will take them alive and get into the city.’”

² “Do you see all these things?” he asked. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another;^(A) every one will be thrown down.”

⁴⁴ They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls.^(A) They will not leave one stone on another,^(B) because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming^(C) to you.”

The Destruction of the Temple and Signs of the End Times^(A)(B)

⁵ Some of his disciples were remarking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God. But Jesus said,

⁶ “As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another;^(A) every one of them will be thrown down.”