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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

诗篇 74:6

聖殿中的一切雕刻,他們都用斧子和銃子打碎了。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ax;   Carving;   Thompson Chain Reference - Arts and Crafts;   Carving;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Temple;   War;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Axe;   Carve;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Axe;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ax, Ax Head;   Tools;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Arts and Crafts;   Asaph;   Hatchet;   Leviathan;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Synagogue;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ax, Axe;   Carved Work;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Carving;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ax (Axe);   Carving;   Hammer;   Hatchet;   Tools;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hammer;   Metals;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
圣 所 中 一 切 雕 刻 的 , 他 们 现 在 用 斧 子 锤 子 打 坏 了 。

Contextual Overview

1

A maskil of Asaph.

God, why have you rejected us for so long? Why are you angry with us, the sheep of your pasture? 2 Remember the people you bought long ago. You saved us, and we are your very own. After all, you live on Mount Zion. 3 Make your way through these old ruins; the enemy wrecked everything in the Temple. 4 Those who were against you shouted in your meeting place and raised their flags there. 5 They came with axes raised as if to cut down a forest of trees. 6 They smashed the carved panels with their axes and hatchets. 7 They burned your Temple to the ground; they have made the place where you live unclean. 8 They thought, "We will completely crush them!" They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land. 9 We do not see any signs. There are no more prophets, and no one knows how long this will last. 10 God, how much longer will the enemy make fun of you? Will they insult you forever?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 6:18, 1 Kings 6:29, 1 Kings 6:32, 1 Kings 6:35

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 7:14 - as Jeremiah 52:13 - burned

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, 1 Kings 6:18, 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

Jeremiah 46:22.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But now they break down the carved work thereof ... - literally, “But now the carvings of it together, at once, with sledge and hammers they beat down.” The carved work refers evidently to the ornaments of the temple. The word used here - פתוח pittûach - is rendered engraving, carved work, or carving; Exodus 28:11, Exodus 28:21, Exodus 28:36; Exodus 39:6, Exodus 39:14, Exodus 39:30; Zechariah 3:9; 2 Chronicles 2:14. It is the very word which in 1 Kings 6:29 is applied to the ornaments around the walls of the temple - the “carved figures of cherubim, and palm trees, and open flowers,” and there can be no doubt that the allusion here is to those ornaments. These were rudely cut down, or knocked off, with axes and hammers, as a man lays low the trees of the wood. The phrase “at once” means that they drove forward the work with all despatch. They spared none of them. They treated them all alike as an axeman does the trees of a forest when his object is to clear the land.


 
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