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King James Version

Psalms 74:7

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Arson;   Church;   Persecution;   Thompson Chain Reference - Temple;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Temple;   War;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   Leviathan;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ground;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of your name, bringing it down to the ground.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They haue cast thy Sanctuarie into the fire, and rased it to the grounde, and haue defiled the dwelling place of thy Name.
Christian Standard Bible®
They set your sanctuary on fire;they utterly desecratedthe dwelling place of your name.
Hebrew Names Version
They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your Name.
Easy-to-Read Version
They burned down your Holy Place. It was built to honor your name, but they pulled it down to the ground.
Amplified Bible
They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; They have profaned the dwelling place of Your name.
American Standard Version
They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name by casting it to the ground.
Contemporary English Version
They burned down your temple and badly disgraced it.
Complete Jewish Bible
They set your sanctuary on fire, tore down and profaned the abode of your name.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They have set Thy sanctuary on fire; they have profaned the dwelling-place of Thy name even to the ground.
King James Version (1611)
They haue cast fire into thy Sanctuary, they haue defiled by casting downe, the dwelling place of thy Nawe to the ground.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They have burnt thy sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of thy name.
English Revised Version
They have set thy sanctuary on fire; they have profaned the dwelling place of thy name even to the ground.
Berean Standard Bible
They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
Lexham English Bible
They have set fire to your sanctuary. They have defiled to the ground, the dwelling place for your name.
Literal Translation
They have cast fire in Your sanctuary; they have polluted the place where Your name dwells on the earth.
New Century Version
They burned your Temple to the ground; they have made the place where you live unclean.
New English Translation
They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrate your dwelling place by knocking it to the ground.
New King James Version
They have set fire to Your sanctuary; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
New Living Translation
They burned your sanctuary to the ground. They defiled the place that bears your name.
New Life Bible
They have burned Your holy place to the dust. They have made dirty the house of Your name.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They have cast, into the fire, thy sanctuary, To the ground, have they profaned the habitation of thy Name.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(73-7) They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.
George Lamsa Translation
They have set fire to and burned thy sanctuary; they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on earth.
Good News Translation
They wrecked your Temple and set it on fire; they desecrated the place where you are worshiped.
New American Standard Bible
They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They haue set fire on thy holy places: they haue defiled the dwellyng place of thy name [castyng it downe] to the groud.
New Revised Standard
They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrated the dwelling place of your name, bringing it to the ground.
Darby Translation
They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei brenten with fier thi seyntuarie; thei defouliden the tabernacle of thi name in erthe.
Young's Literal Translation
They have sent into fire Thy sanctuary, to the earth they polluted the tabernacle of Thy name,
World English Bible
They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your Name.
Revised Standard Version
They set thy sanctuary on fire; to the ground they desecrated the dwelling place of thy name.
Update Bible Version
They have set your sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of your name [by casting it] to the ground.
Webster's Bible Translation
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled [by casting down] the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground.
Bible in Basic English
They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They cutt downe all the sylinge worke of ye Sactuary wt bylles & axes.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.
Legacy Standard Bible
They have set Your sanctuary on fire;By bringing it to the ground, they have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.

Contextual Overview

1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? 2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. 4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. 5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. 6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. 7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. 8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. 9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. 10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cast fire into thy sanctuary: Heb. sent thy sanctuary into the fire, 2 Kings 25:9, Isaiah 64:11, Matthew 22:7

defiled: Psalms 89:39, Ezekiel 24:21

dwelling: Exodus 20:24, Deuteronomy 12:5, 1 Kings 8:20

Reciprocal: Psalms 79:1 - holy Psalms 83:12 - General Jeremiah 19:13 - defiled Haggai 1:4 - and

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary,.... Or, "thy sanctuary into the fire" o; which denotes the utter destruction of it by fire, which was done both by the Chaldean and Roman armies; see

2 Kings 25:9,

they have defiled, by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground, or "to the earth they have defiled the habitation of thy name" p; that is, to the last and lowest degree; this Antiochus did when he set up an idol in the temple, and Titus when he laid it level with the ground, not leaving one stone upon another, as our Lord predicted, Matthew 24:1 the aggravation of which was, that it was the place where the Lord had put his name, where his name was called upon, and where was the symbol of his presence.

o באש מקדשך "in ignem sanctuaria tua", Pagninus, Vatablus; so Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis. p לארץ חללו משכן שמך "ad terram usque prophanarunt tabernaculum, vel habitationem nominis tui", Musculus, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary - Into the temple to destroy it. Literally, “They have cast thy sanctuary into the fire.” The meaning is, that they had burned it down. This was actually done by the Chaldeans, 2 Kings 25:9; 2 Chronicles 36:19.

They have defiled by casting down the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground - The place where thy name dwelt or was recorded Exodus 20:24; that is, the place where God’s name was known, or where he was worshipped. The literal meaning is, “To the earth they have defiled the dwelling of thy name?” The idea is, that they had defiled or polluted the temple by throwing it to the ground; by making it a heap of ruins; by making it undistinguishable from common earth.


 
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