Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 74:8

8 They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together x, they have burnt up all the synagogues of God in the land .

(i. e.) All the publick places wherein the Iews used to meet together to Worship God, every Sabbath day, as is noted, A[illegible: 1+ letters]t. 13. 27. and upon other occasions. That the Iews had such Synagogues, is manifest both from these and other places of Scripture; and from the Testimony of the Hebrew Doctors, and other Antient and learned Writers, who affirm it, and particularly of Ierusalem, in which they say there were above four hundred Synagogues; and from the Nature and necessity of the thing: For seeing it is undeniable that they did Worship God publickly, in every Sabbath, and other Holy times, even then when they neither did, nor could go up to Ierusalem, both Conscience and Prudence must needs direct them to appoint Convenient places for that purpose.

ae Root and Branch, one as well as another, or all at once. So they desired, and many of them intended, although afterwards, it seems, they changed their Counsel, and carried some away Captives, and left others to manage the Land.

Marginal references: Heb. Break.