John Gill's Exposition on 1 Kings 9:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And at this house which is high, etc.] The house of the most High, as some render it, and in high esteem, fame, and glory, as well as it was built on an high hill, and was itself one hundred and twenty cubits high, (<140304>2 Chronicles 3:4), the Targum is, “and this house which was high shall be destroyed:” everyone that passeth by it shall be astonished; at the ruins of the temple, and of the city of Jerusalem, which had been so magnificent: and shall hiss; in scorn and derision of the people of Israel, rejoicing in their ruin: and they shall say, why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house? or suffered it to be done, to lie thus in waste and ruins; a land in which it had been said he delighted, and looked unto from one end of the year to the other, and a house he had taken up his dwelling in; surely something more than ordinary, they suggest, must be the cause of all this.

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