John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 122:9

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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).

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