Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 48:4
For, lo, the kings, the same enemies of Zion which are mentioned in Psalms 2, were assembled, they passed by together, in a confederacy to attack the city of God.
For, lo, the kings, the same enemies of Zion which are mentioned in Psalms 2, were assembled, they passed by together, in a confederacy to attack the city of God.
Verse Psalms 48:4. _FOR, LO, THE KINGS WERE ASSEMBLED_] Many of the neighbouring potentates, at different times, envied the prosperity of the Jewish nation, and coveted the riches of the temple; but...
FOR, LO, THE KINGS WERE ASSEMBLED - There is evidently allusion here to some fact that had occurred; some gathering together of kings and their armies, with a view to besiege or attack Jerusalem. The...
Psalms 48 The Judgment of the Nations and the Millennium _ 1. Jerusalem the city of the King (Psalms 48:1)_ 2. The confederated nations scattered (Psalms 48:4) 3. The millennium ...
XLVIII. A PSALM WHICH DESCRIBES THE IMPRESSION MADE ON A PILGRIM BY HIS VISIT TO ZION. Psalms 48:1 f. Praise of Zion. SIDES OF THE NORTH is hard to comprehend. It has been explained as contrasting Zio...
LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ THE KINGS: i.e. the vassal kings of Sennacherib....
Jehovah's revelation of Himself as Zion's protector in the recent discomfiture of her enemies....
For, lo, the kings assembled themselves (R.V.): Sennacherib's vassal kings (Isaiah 10:8) met at their rendezvous (cp. Psalms 2:2): they passed over together; uniting their forces they crossed the fron...
PSALMS 48 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Jehovah Worthy to be Praised in his Holy City, whose History rebounds to the Honour of her Shepherd-King, who will yet Lead Israel against Death. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psa...
_FOR, LO, THE KINGS WERE ASSEMBLED, THEY PASSED BY TOGETHER._ For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together - `they passed utterly and altogether away.' The object of their assembling is...
This Ps. celebrates the safety and glory of Jerusalem, and the praise of her divine King. The deliverance He has wrought is vividly portrayed, and we can hardly fail to recognise that the overthrow of...
KINGS] The vassal kings of Sennacherib (Isaiah 10:8). They gather and march in order till they see Jerusalem. Then they are amazed, and forced to turn back in confusion....
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 KINGS. — With the striking picture of the advance and sudden collapse of a hostile expedition that follows, comp. Isaiah 10:28; possibly of the very same event. THE KINGS. — Evidently known to the...
_[Psalms 48:5]_ כִּֽי ־הִנֵּ֣ה הַ֭ מְּלָכִים נֹֽועֲד֑וּ...
Psalms 48:1 THE situation seems the same as in Psalms 46:1, with which this psalm has many points of contact. In both we have the same triumph, the same proud affection for the holy city and sanctuary...
“THE CITY OF OUR GOD” Psalms 48:1 This psalm also probably dates from 2 Chronicles 20:20. Tekoa was only three hours' march from Jerusalem and commanded an extensive view, so that Psalms 48:4 were li...
In Psa 46:1-11 the dominant note was of confidence, because of the government of God in the midst of His people. This is a song describing the experience resulting from such government. It is the anth...
For, lo, the kings were (e) assembled, they passed by together. (e) They conspired and went against God's people....
All the powers of the world were confederate against Israel, when first God made her a church. And all the powers of the world were confederate when first the gospel was made known. Hell hath been up...
4_For, behold! the kings assembled _Here that special deliverance of which I have spoken is touched upon. The prophet relates how, when the kings were assembled together to destroy Jerusalem, their ef...
Psalms 48 completes this series. Jehovah is fully established as Israel's God in Zion, now the praise of the whole earth, the city of the great King, and in whose palaces God is well known as a refuge...
FOR, LO, THE KINGS WERE ASSEMBLED,.... As the princes of the Philistines to seek for David, when in the strong hold of Zion, 2 Samuel 5:17; as the Ethiopians in the time of Asa, 2 Chronicles 14:9; and...
For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. Ver. 4. _For, lo, the kings were assembled_] The princes of the Philistines, 2 Samuel 5:5. Or, Sennacherib's princes, which were all kings,...
_For lo, the kings were assembled_ The neighbouring princes confederate against Jerusalem: see the contents. _They passed by_ In their march toward Jerusalem. They advanced, and marched on, not doubti...
1-7 Jerusalem is the city of our God: none on earth render him due honour except the citizens of the spiritual Jerusalem. Happy the kingdom, the city, the family, the heart, in which God is great, in...
Either those kings confederate against Jehoshaphat, 2CH 20; or the Assyrian princes, whom they vain-gloriously called KINGS, ISAIAH 10:8. THEY PASSED BY, in their march towards Jerusalem. Or, _they pa...
Psalms 48:4 kings H4428 assembled H3259 (H8738) by H5674 (H8804) together H3162 Psalms 83:2
THE NATIONS QUAIL BEFORE THE POWER OF GOD IN HIS HOLY HILL (PSALMS 48:4). The glory of the dwellingplace of the Great God is such that the nations quail before Him. Though they may assemble themselves...
Psalms 48 There is one event, and only one, in Jewish history which corresponds point for point to the details of this Psalm the crushing destruction of the Assyrian army under Sennacherib. We may, wi...
A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. It is not every Psalm that is a song, for some Psalms are full of sorrow and it is not every song that is a Psalm, for, alas! there are many songs that are mere...
Psalms 48:1. _Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of...
CONTENTS: Praise of the beauty and strength of Mount Zion, the city of God. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: There is one city which is the world's star (Jerusalem), the most precious pearl of...
Title. _A psalm for the sons of Korah._ Asaph being dead, and his sons not named, we infer that the psalm, as many think, was composed on the Assyrian invasion; for then God was truly great in Zion, i...
_Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised._ A SONG OF DELIVERANCE The psalm has manifestly some historical basis. What is it? The psalm gives these points--a formidable muster before Jerusalem of...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 48:1. Like Psalms 46:1, Psalms 48:1 is a hymn celebrating Z
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_. “_A Song and Psalm_.” “It is not easy,” says Barnes, “to account for this double appellation, or to distinguish between the meaning of these words, though _probably_ the...
EXPOSITION HERE we have another psalm of thanksgiving for a deliverance, but not apparently for the same deliverance as gave occasion for either of the two preceding psalms. Israel had now been delive...
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountains of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, th...
2 Samuel 10:14; 2 Samuel 10:16; 2 Samuel 10:6; Isaiah 10:8; Isa
The kings — Either those kings confederate against Jehoshaphat, 2 Chronicles 20:1, or the Assyrian princes; whom they vain — gloriously called kings, Isaiah 10:8. Passed — In their march towards Jerus...