John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 81:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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I removed his shoulder from the burden, etc.] These are the words of God, declaring how he had delivered the Israelites from the oppression and cruelty of the Egyptians; who made their lives bitter in hard bondage, and obliged them to carry heavy loads of bricks upon their shoulders: his hands were delivered from the pots, or “baskets” f1173; into which the bricks were put when made, and carried on their shoulders; or from making of pots, as Kimchi, who thinks the Israelites were employed in making pots of clay as well as bricks; (see <196813>Psalm 68:13), the Targum is, “his hands withdrew themselves from casting clay into the pots:” the whole is typical of the saints’ deliverance by Christ from the bondage of sin, Satan, and the law.

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