Psalms Chapter 74 verse 6 Holy Bible
And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.
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Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.
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And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.
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But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
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But now they break down the carved work of it at once with axes and hammers.
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Now all its carved work They break down with hatchet and hammers.
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And now, its carvings together With axe and hatchet they break down,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. The "carved work" (pittuchim) of the temple consisted of the cherubim and palm trees and open flowers which formed the decoration of the temple walls (see 1 Kings 6:29, where the same word, pittuchim, is used). This superficial carved work may have been broken down for the sake of the gold with which it was overlaid (1 Kings 6:22, 32, 35).