Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 74:2

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.

Shew by thine Actions, that thou hast not utterly forgotten and forsaken them.

Thy Church or People.

Or, Redeemed, as it follows; Or bought, as it is Deut. 32. 6. or procured, though without Price, as this Word is used, Ruth 4. 9, 10.

When thou broughtest them out of Egypt, and formedst them into a Common-wealth, and gavest them Laws, and didst enter into Covenant with them at Sinai[illegible: 1+ letters]

That people which thou hast measured out, as it were by Rod, to be thy Portion or Inheritance, as they are called also, Deut. 32. 9. See also, Psal. 16. 5, 6. Ier. 10. 16. Or, the Tribe (as this Word commonly signifies) of thine Inheritance, (i. e.) The Tribe of Iudah, which thou hast in a special manner chosen for thine Inheritance, and for the seat of the Kingdom, and for the Birth of the Messiah. And thus here is an Elegant Gradation from the general to particulars; First, the Congregation consisting of all the Tribes; then the Tribe of Iudah; and Lastly, Mount Zion. No[illegible: 1+ letters] is it strange, that he mentions this Tribe particularly, because the Calamity and Captivity here remembred, did principally be[illegible: 1+ letters]al this Tribe, and Benjamin, which was united with it, and subject to it, and the most that returned were of this Tribe: For the generality of the other Tribes, were long before dispersed into other Lands, and continue in their Captivity, to this day.

Which is oft put for the Temple, or the Hill of Moriah, on which it was built:

Marginal references: Or, Tribe▪