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John Trapp on Lamentations 2:6

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Lamentations2:6

Ver. 6. And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle] Redit ad deplorandam religionem: nothing grieves a good ſoul ſo much as the loſſe of religious opportunities. Old Eli's heart was broke before his neck, at the news of the Ark taken.

As if it were of a garden] As if it were ſome cottage or hovel ſet up for a ſhort time in a garden, for the repoſe of the gardiner, Eſ. 1.8.

He hath deſtroyed his places of the aſſembly] Whence we were wont to hope for help, in anſwer to our prayers. There it was that he formerly brake the arrows of the bow, the ſheild, and the ſword, and the battle, Pſal. 76.3. See the Note there. Hence 2 Chron. 4.9. the great Court of the Temple, where the people uſed to pray, is called Gnazarah, that is help and defence.

The King and the Priest] Zedekiah, and Serajah; and with them, the Kingdom and the Prieſthood, Haec jam pro vili, ſub pedibuſque jacent.

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