secret place] Which signifieth the most holy place, whereinto none might enter but the High Priest, and where God by the signes of his presence did dwell in darknesse, that place being filled with a mist, 1 Kings 8:10. 12. and receiving no light from without; to shew that God in his essence is invisible and incomprehensible, and in his glory and Majestie inaccessible. robbers] Or, burglers. enter into it] Namely, Jerusalem. defile it] That is, shall sack and destroy it, as a profane and polluted place, without any respect to it, as to a City consecrated to God.