Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Psalms 72:2
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
He shall judge ... thy poor with judgment - the afflicted ones among the people of God.
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
He shall judge ... thy poor with judgment - the afflicted ones among the people of God.
Verse Psalms 72:2. _HE SHALL JUDGE THY PEOPLE WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS_] With justice and mercy mixed, or according to _equity_. _AND THY POOR WITH JUDGMENT._] Every one according to the _law_ which thou h...
HE SHALL JUDGE THY PEOPLE WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS - On this verse see the notes at Isaiah 11:3. The fact that this so entirely accords with the description in Isaiah 11, which undoubtedly refers to the Mes...
Psalms 72 The Kingdom Psalm __ 1. The King, who reigns in righteousness (Psalms 72:1) 2. His kingdom from sea to sea (Psalms 72:5) 3. The blessings and the kingdom ...
JUDGE, &C.. rule in righteousness. POOR. oppressed (plural) See note on Psalms 70:5. JUDGMENT. justice....
He shall give sentence to thy people with righteousness, And to thine afflicted ones with Judgement. Many commentators render the verbs throughout the Ps. as optatives, _Let him give sentence_, and...
A prayer that God will confer upon the king the gifts which he needs for the right exercise of his office. Then righteousness will bear the fruit of peace; redress and repression of wrong will promote...
PSALMS 72 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A People's Prayer for a Perfect King. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 72:1-4, Prayer for King of Royal Descent, that the Divine Attributes of Justice and Righteousness may be...
72:2 judgment. (g-12) Or 'rectitude.'...
Title.—_A Psalm_ for (RV 'of') Solomon. The title in AV suggests that David is the writer, and Solomon the subject, of this Ps., but, as RV shows, the authorship is really ascribed to Solomon. The Ps....
THY POOR] the class who suffered most from unjust and oppressive rulers....
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
The order of the words should be noticed — “judgments,” “righteousness,” “righteousness,” “judgment” — as offering a good instance of introverted parallelism. With regard to the meaning of the words w...
יָדִ֣ין עַמְּךָ֣ בְ צֶ֑דֶק וַ עֲנִיֶּ֥יךָ בְ
Psalms 72:1 RIGHTLY or wrongly, the superscription ascribes this psalm to Solomon. Its contents have led several commentators to take the superscription in a meaning for which there is no warrant, as...
“KING OF KINGS” Psalms 72:1 Solomon's reign opened as a morning without clouds. Much of the imagery of this royal ode is derived from the circumstances of his life. Compare Psalms 72:1 with his praye...
This is a great psalm of the Theocracy. Incidentally the whole perfect order is revealed. God high over all enthroned, and in all actively governing. The king, appointed by God, and gaining his guidan...
_Slipt. I had almost yielded to temptation (Menochius) by denying Providence, (Haydock) and following the broad road. [Matthew vii. 13.] (Worthington) --- Upon more mature reflection, (Haydock) I am p...
The prophet having with an eye of faith, beheld the advent of the Redeemer, goes on, under the same spirit of prophecy, to describe the blessed auspices of his reign. I would observe, once for all, wh...
2._He shall judge thy people in righteousness. _Some read this in the form of a wish — _O that he may judge, etc. _Others retain the future tense; and thus it is a prophecy. But we will come nearer th...
Psalms 72 introduces us, not to David in suffering and conflict, but to the full reign of peace and royal blessing. It is the Son of David we have here, the source and securer of millennial blessings....
HE SHALL JUDGE THY PEOPLE WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS,.... Or, "so shall he judge"; or, "that he may judge" n, as the Syriac and Arabic versions; having the judgments and righteousness of God given him, he wil...
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. Ver. 2. _He shall judge thy people with righteousness_] _sc._ If thou please to remember thy promise to me, and to answer thi...
_He shall judge thy people with righteousness_ Namely, if thou givest him what I have desired. And by this prediction he tacitly admonishes him of, and obliges him to, the performance of his duty. Or...
THE MAJESTIC REIGN OF THE MESSIAH. A psalm for Solomon, composed by Solomon; for he, under whose wise reign Israel reached the summit of its glory and power and was filled with the blessings of the L...
He shall judge Thy people with righteousness, that is, the congregation of Jehovah, AND THY POOR, those truly poor in spirit, WITH JUDGMENT. Because the Messiah is clothed with the righteousness of Go...
2-17 This is a prophecy of the kingdom of Christ; many passages in it cannot be applied to the reign of Solomon. There were righteousness and peace at first in the administration of his government; b...
HE SHALL JUDGE, to wit, if thou givest him what I have desired. And by this prediction he doth tacitly admonish him of, and oblige him to, the performance of his duty herein. Or, _Let him judge_; the...
Psalms 72:2 judge H1777 (H8799) people H5971 righteousness H6664 poor H6041 justice H4941 He shall -...
This is a Psalm which relates to the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, not as the Man of sorrows, but as the King of glory; not as David, struggling to secure the throne; but as Solomon, seated upon it,...
Psalms 72:1. _Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son._ «Give the king thy judgments, O God.» The right to reign was transmitted by descent from David to Solomon...
«A Psalm for Solomon» much more for one who is greater than Solomon, the true Prince of Peace. Psalms 72:1. _Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son._ So it is...
A Psalm for Solomon. This was David's dying bequest to his son Solomon, but a greater than Solomon is here, for this Psalm concerns the reign, triumph, and everlasting dominion of our Lord Jesus Chri...
CONTENTS: The glories of the reign of the coming King. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: A day is coming when all shall sing «All hail the power of Jesus name, let angels prostrate fall; bring for...
The Hebrew doctors have transmitted this psalm as the last that David composed. It was sung at the inauguration of Solomon to the throne, when Zadok had anointed him to be king over Israel, and when t...
_Give the king Thy judgments, O God, and Thy righteousness unto the king’s son._ THE WORLD-WANTED KING Society cannot exist without laws: these laws require to be expressed and enforced, and whoever...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 72:1. The last psalm of Book 2 is a royal psalm. It is a prayer that David’s heirs might be faithful kings. That means ruling God’s people well, protecting the poor and need...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_A Psalm for Solomon_.” Margin: “Of Solomon.” Hengstenberg: “Solomon is named in the title as the _author_ of the Psalm. Attempts have been made, to no purpose, to inte...
EXPOSITION THE "title" attributes this psalm to Solomon, and the contents of the psalm are very favourable to his authorship. The prayer in Psalms 72:1 is an echo of that recorded in 1 Kings 3:9. The...
Psa 72:1-20 is entitled, "A Psalm for Solomon." As we read this, we find that it goes far beyond Solomon and actually is a prophecy of that Son that was promised to David, even Jesus Christ, who would...
1 Kings 3:5; Isaiah 11:3; Isaiah 32:1; Isaiah 32:17; Jeremiah 33:15;
Thy afflicted ones — For such are thine in a special manner, thou art their judge and patron....