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Thy temple; either,
1. The old tabernacle which then was; which is oft called by this name. But that was now at Gibeon, not at Jerusalem. Or rather,
2. The temple which Solomon should build, which David knew should be very magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries, as he saith, 1Ch_22:5; and such as would command esteem and reverence even from heathenish princes and people, and that not only for its most splendid and glorious structure, but especially for the wonderful works of the God of that temple wrought by him on the behalf of his people, and in answer to the prayers made in the temple; of which see 1Ki_8:41-43.
Kings; kings of the Gentiles; which was done in part in the times of Solomon and Hezekiah, 1Ki_10:11,24,25 2Ch_32:23, and afterwards by others; but more fully when the Lord Christ was come into his temple, according to that prophecy, Mal_3:1, and had built a better temple instead of it, even the Christian church, to which the kings and nations of the earth were to flow in great abundance, according to the tenor of many prophecies in the Old Testament.