Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Psalms 74:7
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary:
Heb. they have sent thy sanctuary into the fire
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary:
Heb. they have sent thy sanctuary into the fire
THEY HAVE CAST FIRE INTO THY SANCTUARY - Into the temple to destroy it. Literally, “They have cast thy sanctuary into the fire.” The meaning is, that they had burned it down. This was actually done by...
Psalms 74 The Enemy in the Sanctuary _ 1. The Prayer on account of the enemy (Psalms 74:1)_ 2. The work of the enemy (Psalms 74:4) 3. Intercession for intervention ...
LXXIV. The date may be fixed with certainty and that within narrow limits. The Jews are suffering extreme distress, but apparently by no fault of their own, for there is no confession of sin. The pers...
CAST FIRE INTO, &C.. cast Thy holy place into the fire. SANCTUARY. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "holy places" (plural) DWELLING PLACE. Hebrew. _mishkan._ App-40 (2)....
A graphic picture of the desecration of the Temple by the heathen enemies of Israel....
They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling place of thy name even to the ground. (R.V.) The verse appears to speak of a complete destruction of the Temple by fire. This was...
PSALMS 74 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Ruthless Injuries to the Sanctuary and Oppression in the Land by an Enemy, call forth Expostulation with God for his quiescence. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 74:1-3 a, In...
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. -The enemy has destroyed God's sanctuary and synagogues, and there are no tokens of God...
74:7 habitation (f-12) _ Mishkan_ , used for 'tabernacle,' Exodus 25:9 , c. 2 Chronicles 29:6 , Psalms 78:60 . Also 'dwelleth,'...
Psalms 74, 79 seem to reflect the same historical situation, and are usually ascribed to the same author. Both were written in a time of national calamity, when the Temple was profaned (Psalms 74), an...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ KEEP YOUR PROMISE! PSALMS 74 Jesus said, "One stone will not stay on another. They will all become broken". (Ma
THEY HAVE CAST FIRE INTO. — Literally, _They have cast into fire thy sanctuary._ Probably a hyperbolic expression, and purporting to express the vastness of the conflagration. Others compare with the...
שִׁלְח֣וּ בָ֭ † אֵשׁ מִקְדָּשֶׁ֑ךָ לָ֝ †...
Psalms 74:1 Two periods only correspond to the circumstances described in this psalm and its companion (Psalms 79:1)-namely, the Chaldean invasion and sack of Jerusalem, and the persecution under Anti...
THE SANCTUARY OF GOD PROFANED Psalms 74:1 This psalm probably dates from the time when the Chaldeans destroyed the Temple and the city of Jerusalem. Compare Psalms 74:8 with Jeremiah 3:13. The main e...
This is a great complaint, but it is a complaint of faith. Hardly a gleam of light is found throughout. The singer sits in the midst of national desolation and pours out his soul to God in passionate...
Hills. Hebrew harim, may also be considered as the nominative case; "not from the south a re there heights" to which they may flee for succour. (Haydock) --- Yet most of the ancients agree with us; th...
The pleading soul here takes up many strong and unanswerable arguments to plead with God. He first sets out with reminding Jehovah, that the anger God hath manifested is against his people. Now, saith...
7._They have set fire to thy sanctuaries. _The Psalmist now complains that the temple was burned, and thus completely razed and destroyed, whereas it was only half demolished by the instruments of war...
Psalms 74 complains of the hostile desolation of the sanctuary, when rebuilt in the land. God's enemies, as faith here calls them, roar in the congregations. Man's ensigns, not God's, are the signs of...
THEY HAVE CAST FIRE INTO THY SANCTUARY,.... Or, "thy sanctuary into the fire" o; which denotes the utter destruction of it by fire, which was done both by the Chaldean and Roman armies; see 2 Kings 2...
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled [by casting down] the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. Ver. 7. _They have cast fire inlo thy sanctuary_] Heb. They have sent thy san...
_They have cast fire into thy sanctuary_, &c. The Chaldeans first polluted, and then set fire to Solomon's temple, and burned that stately and costly fabric down to the ground. And Antiochus set fire...
They have cast fire into Thy sanctuary, deliberately burning the house of Jehovah; THEY HAVE DEFILED, BY CASTING DOWN, THE DWELLING-PLACE OF THY NAME, where the Lord revealed Himself to His people in...
PRAYER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE CHURCH. Maschil, a didactic poem, of Asaph, a prophetic psalm, foretelling some of the afflictions which would befall the Church of God, in the Old Testament as wel...
1-11 This psalm appears to describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Chaldeans. The deplorable case of the people of God, at the time, is spread before the Lord, and left with him....
First they polluted it, and then they burnt it, and broke it in pieces....
Psalms 74:7 set H7971 (H8765) fire H784 sanctuary H4720 defiled H2490 (H8765) place H4908 name H8034 ground...
CONTENTS: The deplorable condition of God's people spread before Him with petition for deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: The desolations of God's house cannot but grieve the believer m...
Title. _Maschil of Asaph;_ that is, instruction, as Psalms 32. The EDDA is the title of the Icelandic poem, which also signifies instruction. This mournful ode is also alleged to have been written in...
_O God, why hast Thou cast us off for ever?_ why doth Thine anger smoke against the sheep of Thy pasture? THE WAIL AND PRAYER OF A TRUE PATRIOT I. The wail (Psalms 74:1). 1. Some communities of men...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 74:1. This psalm, a community lament, is a cry of anguish over the destruction of the temple. It recounts God’s mighty deeds in the past, especially the exodus. Past events...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 74:4 Considering the importance that God himself has placed on the temple, it is horrific that the Gentiles have destroyed (PROFANED) it....
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“A Maschil of Asaph,” i.e., an Instruction of Asaph, a Didactic Song by Asaph. See introduction to Psalms 1. “But _here_ we cannot have the least idea of the authorship...
EXPOSITION "THE misery of the Jews is here at its deepest". The psalmist describes Jerusalem as fallen into "perpetual ruins" (Psalms 74:3). The temple is violated (Psalms 74:3); its carved work is ru...
Psa 74:1-23 is one of those psalms where the psalmist again is speaking of the desolation that is come, and the apparent quietness of God in the face of the desolation. God didn't do anything to stop...
1 Kings 8:20; 2 Kings 25:9; Deuteronomy 12:5; Exodus 20:24; Ezekie