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God's Temple, A Garden Shed
Commentators highlight the shocking imagery of God's magnificent temple being torn down as easily as a temporary gardener's hut. This illustrates the totality of the judgment and how God, in His anger, regarded the once-sacred temple as something flimsy and disposable, violently removing what He had once established.
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Lamentations
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Albert Barnes
On Lamentations 2:6
18th Century
Theologian
tabernacle - Or, shelter (Jeremiah 25:38), that is, such a tent of boughs as was put up at the Feast of Tabernacles. The words m…
Charles Ellicott
On Lamentations 2:6
19th Century
Bishop
He has violently taken away his tabernacle ... —The noun represents a “booth” or “shed,” like those erected in the Feast of Tabern…
John Calvin
On Lamentations 2:6
16th Century
Theologian
Then he says first, that his tabernacle had been overthrown by God. Those who translate it as “cottage” diminish too much what is being sa…
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John Gill
On Lamentations 2:6
17th Century
Pastor
And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as [if it were] of a garden The house of the sanctuary or temple, as the …
Matthew Henry
On Lamentations 2:1–9
17th Century
Minister
A sad representation is made here of the state of God's church, of Jacob and Israel; but the focus seems mostly to be on the hand of the Lord in th…