Psalms 122:9

“Because of the house of the Lord our God, etc.] Not because of his own palace, nor because of his own house and family; nor because of his own personal interest; though all were concerned in the peace of Jerusalem: but chiefly because of the sanctuary of the Lord, as the Targum; because of the worship and service of God in it; because of his great love and zeal for the house and church of the living God, which ate him up, (<196909>Psalm 69:9); I will seek thy good; the good of Jerusalem, the good of the church of God; do all the good he could to it both with his purse and prayers, and by stirring up others to do the same; (see <195118>Psalm 51:18).”

“Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good - Because of the sanctuary within thee; because that is the place where God is worshipped. The principal attraction in thee is the fact that in thee is the place where the worship of God is celebrated. It is this which gives its main importance in my view to the place; it is for this, and because I desire its influence to be perpetuated and extended, that I seek thy prosperity. This expresses a deep feeling in the mind of a pious man. To him the church of God is the most important of all objects, gives the principal interest to a place, and is everywhere to him the chief attraction. The church does more to adorn a place than…”

“the house: Psa 26:8, Psa 69:9, Psa 84:1, Psa 84:2, Psa 84:10; Ch1 29:3; Joh 2:17 I will seek: Psa 102:13, Psa 102:14, Psa 137:5, Psa 137:6; Neh 2:10, Neh 13:14 Next: Psalms Chapter 123”