John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 74:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.] Formerly it was an honour to be employed in cutting down a tree for the building of the temple; but now so little regard was paid to it, that all its fine carved work, which Solomon made, (<110618>1 Kings 6:18,29,30), was demolished at once in a rude and furious manner with axes and hammers; which was done either by the Chaldeans in Nebuchadnezzar’s time, or by the Syrians in the times of Antiochus, or by the Romans in the times of Vespasian; the first seems intended; (see <244622> Jeremiah 46:22,23).

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