Psalm 74:6 {73:6}
Good News Translation
They smashed all the wooden panels with their axes and sledge hammers.

New Revised Standard Version
And then, with hatchets and hammers, they smashed all its carved work.

Contemporary English Version
They used axes and hatchets to smash the carvings.

New American Bible
They smashed all its engraved work, struck it with ax and pick.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.

1 Kings 6:18,29,32,35 And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought, and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all. . . .

Context
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5And they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees, 6They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.7They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 13:20
So all Israel went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his ploughshare, and his spade, and his axe, and his rake.

1 Kings 6:18
And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought, and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all.

1 Kings 6:29
And all the walls of the temple round about he carved with divers figures and carvings: and he made in them cherubims and palm trees, and divers representations, as it were standing out, and coming forth from the wall.

Jeremiah 52:13
And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great house he burnt with fire.

Psalm 74:5
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