City, or temple, which lay to the north of old Jerusalem, on Sion. (Calmet) --- Yet Genebrard, &c., place this mountain south of Salem. (Menochius) --- The concourse of priests and people gave the appearance of a great city, Ezechiel xl. 2., and Isaias xiv. 13. --- The Church is built upon a rock. [Matthew xvi. 18.] (Calmet) --- The Jews and Christians are under the greatest obligation of praising God. (Worthington)
Verse Psalms 47:2. _FOR THE LORD MOST HIGH_ IS _TERRIBLE_] He has insufferable majesty, and is _a great King_-the mightiest of all emperors, for he is Sovereign over the whole earth....
FOR THE LORD MOST HIGH - Yahweh, the Most High God; that is, who is exalted above all other beings. Compare Exodus 18:11; 1 Chronicles 16:25 Psa 96:4; 2
Psalms 47 He is King Over All the Earth _ 1. In the midst of His people (Psalms 47:1)_ 2. The praise of His delivered people (Psalms 47:6) And now we see prophetically how the redeemed people clap...
XLVII. JOY OF ALL MANKIND IN YAHWEH. All nations are invited to rejoice in Yahweh's exaltation. It seems strange that they should be expected to rejoice in their own defeat; but this is explained by t...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. MOST HIGH. Hebrew. _Elyon._ App-4. TERRIBLE. to be reverenced. A GREAT KING. This in special contrast with Sennacherib (Isaiah 36:4)....
A summons to all nations to acknowledge Jehovah as their King. He has proved His sovereignty by subjecting the nations to His own people and assigning to it the choicest land for its inheritance....
We may also render as in R.V. marg., For the Lord is most high (and) terrible, or better still, For Jehovah, the Most High, the terrible, Is a great King over all the earth, for the universal sov...
THE LORD MOST HIGH IS TERRIBLE— _Is to be feared—to be revered—to be held in awe._ Fenwick, Mudge, &c....
PSALMS 47 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Israel Invites the Nations to Rejoice in the Universal Kingship of Her God. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 47:1-2, The Invitation Itself, announcing the Central Fact of Jeho...
_FOR THE LORD MOST HIGH IS TERRIBLE; HE IS A GREAT KING OVER ALL THE EARTH._ For the Lord most high is terrible - the ground of exultation, namely, Yahweh's interposition for His people with terrible...
This Ps., though akin to Psalms 46, 48, is less definitely historical, and simply summons the earth to join in a chorus of praise to God as the victorious King, not only of Israel, but of all the nati...
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...
MOST HIGH. — Or, possibly, a predicate, _is exalted._ TERRIBLE. — Literally, _feared._ (Comp. 2 Chronicles 20:29)....
_[Psalms 47:3]_ כִּֽי ־יְהוָ֣ה עֶלְיֹ֣ון נֹורָ֑א מֶ֥לֶךְ...
Psalms 47:1 THE closing thought of Psalms 46:1 is nobly expanded in this jubilant summons to all nations to praise Jehovah as their King. Both psalms have a similar, and probably the same, historical...
“KING OVER ALL THE EARTH” Psalms 47:1 This psalm may have been sung in the valley of Berachah, where Jehoshaphat celebrated his victory over the Moabites. See 2 Chronicles 20:1. When some great deliv...
This is a song of the sovereignty of God. In the Hebrew ceremonial it was pre-eminently the song of the New Year, being repeated seven times ere the sounding of the trumpets which announce the feast....
Here is a call from one awakened soul to another, nay, to all the people of God, to all the church of the Gentiles also, yet to be called to rejoice in Christ's salvation. The clapping of the hands im...
Since, then, no servitude is happy and desirable but that by which God subdues and brings under the standard and authority of Christ his Son those who before were rebels, it follows that this language...
Psalms 47 only pursues this deliverance to its bright results for Israel according to God's glory in the earth. Jehovah is now a great King over all the earth (compare Zechariah 14). He subdues the na...
FOR THE LORD MOST HIGH [IS] TERRIBLE,.... Christ is not only the Son of the Highest, but he himself is the most high God, God over all, blessed for ever. He is higher than the highest, than the angels...
For the LORD most high [is] terrible; [he is] a great King over all the earth. Ver. 2. _For the Lord most high is terrible_] Amiable to his own, terrible to his rebels. This Son, if not kissed, will...
_O clap your hands, all ye people_ All ye tribes of Israel, or, rather, all nations, not only Jews but Gentiles; for all of them would, or might have benefit, if not by the removal of the ark to mount...
THE MESSIAH IN THE GLORY OF HIS EXALTATION. To the chief musician, a psalm for the sons of Korah, written by one of their number at the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, as a prophecy of the victory and...
For the Lord most high is terrible, to be feared, to be regarded with awe and reverence; HE IS A GREAT KING OVER ALL THE EARTH, having dominion over all creatures, but ruling especially His Church wit...
1-4 The God with whom we have to do, is a God of awful majesty. The universal and absolute sovereignty of a holy God would be too terrible for us even to think of, were it not exercised by his Son fr...
MOST HIGH IS TERRIBLE; or, is _most high_ (in himself, above all gods) and (which conjunction is off understood) _terrible_, to all his enemies. A GREAT KING OVER ALL THE EARTH; the universal Monarch...
Psalms 47:2 LORD H3068 High H5945 awesome H3372 (H8737) great H1419 King H4428 earth H776 is terrible -...
THE NATIONS ARE CALLED ON TO SALUTE YHWH MOST HIGH AS THE GREAT KING OVER ALL THE EARTH WHO HAS ESTABLISHED HIS PEOPLE IN THE CHOICEST OF LANDS (PSALMS 47:1). . Psalms 47:1 Oh clap your hands, all y...
Psalms 47:1. _O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. He shall subdue the people under us...
Psalms 47:1. O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great king over all the earth. He shall subdue the people under us,...
CONTENTS: The people exhorted to shout over God's triumphs. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Let all who know God and own His sceptre sing His praises forever; for while we dwell under the sha...
This is the song which the sons of Korah sung before the ark, when it was removed from the city of David to its place in the temple. 2 Chronicles 7 2 Chronicles 7. The ark being a type of Christ, it f...
_O clap your hands, all ye people._ MESSIANIC TRIUMPH PREDICTED The psalmist looked far ahead. His immediate experience was as “a little window through which he saw great matters.” The prophecy of th...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 47:1. This psalm celebrates God’s rule over all the earth (see note on 5:2). The promises to Abraham (Psalms
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the Chief Musician, a psalm for the sons of Korah.” See Introduction to Psalms 42. The author of the psalm, and the occasion on which it was composed, are alike unk...
EXPOSITION THIS is a song of praise to God, as the King of the whole earth. It has been called "one of the _accession _psalms," because it depicts God as assuming his kingdom, and taking his seat upon...
Psa 47:1-9 is a psalm for the New Year. This psalm is read seven times before the blowing of the trumpet to announce the holy day, the beginning of the Jewish New Year. O clap your hands, all ye peopl...
Daniel 7:13; Daniel 7:14; Deuteronomy 28:58; Deuteronomy 7:21;...