![]() We cannot suppose that all the posterity of Jacob would neglect the worship of God in their families no doubt the faithful among them resolved with Joshua, ‘I and my house will serve the Lord.’ Since, therefore, the worship of God was to be found in both, how can this worship be the reason why one should be preferred before the other? Sure upon no other account but this, the worship of God in the gates of Zion was public, his worship in the dwellings of Jacob was private. It was the Lord’s delight in affection to his worship, for which he is said to love the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob.īut it may be replied, the Lord had worship, not only in the gates of Zion, in the temple, but also in the dwellings of Jacob. And this, you know, was in peculiar the settled place of his worship. For the temple was built upon, or near to, the hill of Zion. as the following words explain, the place of his worship. The gates of Zion was the place which the Lord had chosen to cause his name to dwell there, i.e. Now the reason we may find assigned by the Lord himself, Deut. This being manifest, the words will be clear. THAT we may apprehend the meaning of these words, and so thereupon raise some edifying observation, we must inquire into the reason why the Lord is said to love the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. “The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.” PSALM 86:2.
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