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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 79:3
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, etc.] Without any concern of mind, or remorse of conscience; without any fear of God or man; as if it had been so much water only; and this they shed in great abundance: from the Apocrypha: “And when he had taken all away, he went into his own land, having made a great massacre, and spoken very proudly.” (1 Maccabees 1:24) “And spake peaceable words unto them, but all was deceit: for when they had given him credence, he fell suddenly upon the city, and smote it very sore, and destroyed much people of Israel.” (1 Maccabees 1:30) “Thus they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled it:” (1 Maccabees 1:37) “So they rose up against them in battle on the sabbath, and they slew them, with their wives and children and their cattle, to the number of a thousand people.” (1 Maccabees 2:38) in like manner the blood of the saints has been shed by the antichristian beast of Rome, for which he and his followers will be righteously retaliated, (<661706>Revelation 17:6 18:24 16:6) and there was none to bury them: either the number of the slain was so great, that there were not left enough to bury the dead, or they that did remain were not suffered to do it; this will be the case of the two witnesses, when slain, (<661107>Revelation 11:7-9).
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