Psalms 74:8

“They said in their hearts, let us destroy them together, etc.] The Targum is, “their children, are together;” or “their kindred”, as the Septuagint Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, and Arabic versions, taking the word to be of ˆyn, which signifies a “son”; and the sense to be, that seeing they were all together, as the Jews were at the taking of Jerusalem, they might be cut off at once. Jarchi explains it of their rulers; Marinus, as Aben Ezra observes, derives it from a word which signifies to afflict and oppress, to which he agrees; (see <198303>Psalm 83:3-5), they have burnt up all the synagogues of God in the land; not only in Jerusalem, where there were, the Jewish f1052 writers say, four…”

“They said in their hearts - They purposed; they designed it. Let us destroy them together - Let us destroy all these buildings, temples, towers, and walls at the same time; let us make an entire destruction of them all. They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land - The phrase “they have burned up” must refer to the places or edifices where assemblies for public worship were held, since it cannot be supposed that the idea is that they had burned up the assemblies of worshippers themselves. The word rendered “synagogues” is the same in the Hebrew that is used in Psalms 74:4, and is there rendered “congregations.” It means “assemblies,” persons collected together for public…”

“Destroy them - All at once. So they intended, although afterwards they changed their council, and carried some away captive. Burnt up - All the public places wherein the Jews used to meet together to worship God every sabbath - day. Psalms 74:9”

“said: Psa 83:4, Psa 137:7; Est 3:8, Est 3:9 destroy: Heb. break all the synagogues: Kg2 2:3, Kg2 2:5, Kg2 4:23; Ch2 17:9; Mat 4:23 Psalms 74:9”