Psalms 74:6

6 They smashed the carved panels with their axes and hatchets.

Psalms 74:6 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 74:6

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 1 Kings 6:29 1 Kings 6:30 ) , 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 Jeremiah 46:23 ) .

Psalms 74:6 In-Context

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.