Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 114:2
Judah — Or Israel, one tribe being put for all. Judah he mentions as the chief of all the tribes.
Judah — Or Israel, one tribe being put for all. Judah he mentions as the chief of all the tribes.
Verse Psalms 114:2. _JUDAH WAS HIS SANCTUARY_] He set up his true worship among the Jews, and took them for his peculiar people. AND _ISRAEL HIS DOMINION._] These words are a proof, were there none...
JUDAH WAS HIS SANCTUARY - His home; his abode; his sacred dwelling-place. Judah was the principal or leading tribe, recognized as the tribe where power was to be concentrated, and from which the Messi...
PSALM 114-117 Psalms 114 Retrospect As in the book of Deuteronomy God's ways with His people are reviewed so we find in some of these Psalms the reminders of God's dealing with Israel in the past....
CXIV. The marvels on the way from Egypt to Zion, the future sanctuary of Yahweh, and to Canaan as Israel's possession. A Passover hymn....
WAS. became. See note on Genesis 1:2....
JUDAH WAS HIS SANCTUARY— The tribe of Judah is here put for the Jews in general, because Judah was the principal tribe. See Numbers 2:3; Numbers 7:12; Numbers 10:14. A correspondent of Sir Richard Ste...
PSALMS 114 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Passover Song. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 114:1-2, The Deliverance out of Egypt set forth as the Basis of Jehovah's Worship and Reign in Israel. Stanza II., Psalms 11...
Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. JUDAH WAS HIS SANCTUARY. "Was" in Hebrew is feminine, whereas Judah is masculine. Judah is therefore here personified as a virgin (), "the daughter...
This has been called 'one of the finest lyrics in literature.' Probably it is a post-exilic psalm wherein, under the figure of the old exodus from Egypt, the Psalmist chants the return from Babylon. I...
WAS] RV 'became.'...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ SEAS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS AND HILLS OBEY GOD! PSALMS 114 Jesus said, "If you have *faith as small as a (very small) seed, (this is what you can do). You will say...
JUDAH WAS. — Better, _became._ The feminine verb shows that the country is intended, and not the tribe, and the parallelism directs us to think not of the territory of the tribe of Judah alone, but of...
הָיְתָ֣ה יְהוּדָ֣ה לְ קָדְשֹׁ֑ו יִ֝שְׂרָאֵ֗ל מַמְשְׁלֹותָֽיו׃...
Psalms 114:1 It is possible that in this psalm Israel, restored from Babylon, is looking back to the earlier Exodus, and shrilling with the great thought that that old past lives again in the present....
THE MIGHTY GOD UPLIFTETH THE LOWLY Psalms 113:1; Psalms 114:1 We detect the song of Samuel's mother in the first of these psalms. She sang the Old Testament “Magnificat” and it was embalmed by the ps...
This is the second psalm in the Hallel. The first set forth the might and mercy of Jehovah. This is pre-eminently a song of His might, and so the name of God is used. If however it sings of His might,...
Judah was his (b) sanctuary, [and] Israel his dominion. (b) The whole people were witnesses to his holy majesty in adopting them, and of his mighty power in delivering them....
_Days. All my life. (Worthington) --- Faith, hope, and charity, (St. Augustine) as well as gratitude, are here commended. (Berthier) --- Love and confidence are necessary conditions of prayer; and inc...
Reader, do not fail to remark, that when Israel was brought out of Egypt, the Lord set up his tabernacle among them, and manifested his presence to them. And when the Lord Jesus brings out his people...
Psalms 114 is of the highest style of poetry, but is important to us as directly connecting the ancient deliverance of Israel out of Egypt with the present deliverance of the people, and seeing the sa...
JUDAH WAS HIS SANCTUARY,.... Meaning not the tribe of Judah only, though that in many things had the preeminence; the kingdom belonging to it, the chief ruler being out of it, especially the Messiah;...
Judah was his sanctuary, [and] Israel his dominion. Ver. 2. _Judah was his sanctuary_] Or sanctity, or sanctification. This was a happy change for them, from their Egyptian idolatry, Ezekiel 23:19, l...
_When Israel went out of Egypt_ That is, were brought out by mighty signs and wonders wrought by the power of God; _from a people of a strange language_ From a barbarous people, as some render it: tho...
THE GOD OF JACOB THE DELIVERER OUT OF EGYPT. A majestic song celebrating the care of God for His people at the time of the exodus from Egypt, when all the powers of nature were called to contribute f...
Judah, the tribe which assumed the leadership and to whose tribe the capital was reckoned after the time of David, WAS HIS SANCTUARY AND ISRAEL, the entire nation, as His Church, HIS DOMINION, His rul...
JUDAH, or _Israel_, as it is explained in the next clause; one tribe being put for all; which is a common synecdoche. Judah he mentions as the chief of all the tribes, not only in number and power, bu...
Psalms 114:2 Judah H3063 sanctuary H6944 Israel H3478 dominion H4475 Exodus 6:7, Exo
Psalms 114:1. When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. T...
CONTENTS: The deliverance of Israel out of Egypt. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: He who made the hills and the mountains to skip, can when He pleases dissipate the strength and spirit of the...
This is another hallelujah psalm, praising the Lord for deliverance from Egypt for calling the Hebrews to holiness for dividing the sea, and driving Jordan back for making the mountains skip like lamb...
_When Israel went out of Egypt._ THE WORKINGS OF THE ETERNAL WILL God has a will. He doeth all things after the “counsel of His own will.” The universe is but His will in form and action. It is the...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 114:1. This hymn of praise celebrates the special status of Israel in God’s plan. All of nature obeys the Lord, and yet he has chosen little Israel to be his own. He exerts...
INTRODUCTION Date and Authorship unknown; ascribed to the three Hebrew children, Esther and Mordscai. BONDAGE AND DELIVERANCE (_Psalms 114:1_) I. THE BONDAGE WAS DEGRADING. “Israel,” “Egypt”. The d...
EXPOSITION A PSALM of reminiscence, designed to encourage the exiles on their return from Babylon, during their "day of small things" (Zechariah 4:10; comp. Ezra 3:12). If God had done so much for the...
Now Psalms 114:1-8 is a little psalm that calls the deliverance of the... recalls the deliverance of the children of Israel out of the bondage of Egypt. When Israel went out of Egypt, and the house of...
2 Corinthians 6:16; 2 Corinthians 6:17; Deuteronomy 23:14; Deuteronomy 27:12;...