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7We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
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Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
A Song of degrees of David. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)In these verses we have Solomon’s address to God for his favour to him and to his government, and his acceptance of his building a house to God’s name. Observe, I. What he pleads—two things:— 1. That what he had done was in pursuance of the pious vow which his father David had made to build a house for God. Solomon was a wise man, yet pleads not any merit of his own: “I am not worthy, for whom tho…
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