Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 46:9
To cease — He hath settled as in a firm and well — grounded peace. The land — Of Israel: from one end of it to the other. The bow — The bows and spears, and chariots of their enemies.
To cease — He hath settled as in a firm and well — grounded peace. The land — Of Israel: from one end of it to the other. The bow — The bows and spears, and chariots of their enemies.
Verse Psalms 46:9. _HE MAKETH WARS TO CEASE_] By the death of Cambyses, and setting Darius, son of Hystaspes, upon the Persian throne, he has tranquillized the whole empire. That same God who for our...
HE MAKETH WARS TO CEASE UNTO THE END OF THE EARTH - Either in all the land, or in all the world. The overthrow of the Assyrian army would probably put an end to all the wars then raging in the world....
Psalms 46 The Deliverance and What Follows _ 1. God is our Refuge and Strength (Psalms 46:1)_ 2. His coming in power and glory (Psalms 46:4) 3. What follows His manifestation ...
XLVI. GOD THE REFUGE OF HIS PEOPLE. The poem is divided into three parts by the word Selah, which also marks its close. It was further divided by the refrain which occurs after Psalms 46:6 and Psalms...
BOW... SPEAR... CHARIOT. The weapons of war, corresponding with the preceding line war. See the Structure above....
An exhortation to reflect upon this marvellous deliverance and learn its lesson....
The destruction of the Assyrians is an earnest of that final abolition of war which Jehovah will one day bring about, destroying the weapons of war, or burning them in a vast pyre upon the battlefield...
HE MAKETH WARS TO CEASE, &C.— _He hath destroyed the artillery of war, to the end of the earth,_ or _the land._ Comp. Psalms 76:3. He destroyed the whole apparatus and furniture of war, so that there...
PSALMS 46 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Trust in God, Joyfully Maintained in Face of Peril, Speedily Rewarded. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 46:1-3, Trust in God held fast in presence of National Troubles that ar...
_HE MAKETH WARS TO CEASE UNTO THE END OF THE EARTH; HE BREAKETH THE BOW, AND CUTTETH THE SPEAR IN SUNDER; HE BURNETH THE CHARIOT IN THE FIRE._ He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth. When...
Psalms 46-48 form a group which we may assign with little doubt to the reign of Hezekiah, when Sennacherib's army was suddenly destroyed (2 Kings 19:35). They all strike the same note of gratitude, co...
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...
HE MAKETH. — Comp. _Virg. Æn.,_ 3:560....
_[Psalms 46:10]_ מַשְׁבִּ֥ית מִלְחָמֹות֮ עַד ־קְצֵ֪ה הָ֫...
Psalms 46:1 THERE are two events, one or other of which probably supplies the historical basis of this and the two following psalms. One is Jehoshaphat's deliverance from the combined forces of the bo...
“OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH” Psalms 46:1 The historical origin of this psalm cannot be certainly determined. Probably it was composed when Jerusalem was beleaguered by Sennacherib's hosts, 2 Kings 18:1....
Comment on this great song of confidence seems almost unnecessary so powerfully has it taken hold on the heart of humanity, and so perfectly does it set forth the experience of trusting souls in all a...
_Throne. Christ reigns over the heart with all power, Matthew xxviii. 18._...
Who that reads these verses and observes what is going on in the earth, but must be overpowered with the conviction, that everything in the kingdoms of nature and of providence is rendered subservient...
Psalms 46. The remnant, now that Messiah has appeared in glory, can celebrate what God is in favor of His people, and with the special knowledge acquired through what He has been for them in trouble....
HE MAKETH WARS TO CEASE UNTO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH,.... As at the birth of Christ, the Prince of peace, in the times of Augustus Caesar, when there was a general peace in the world, though it did not...
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Ver. 9. _He maketh wars to cease_] As the Lord putteth the...
_Come, behold the works of the Lord_ Draw near, all ye that doubt whether God be with us, and consider seriously these wonderful victories, which it would have been impossible for us to have obtained...
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth, in the interest of His Holy City, in carrying out His plans for the deliverance of His saints; HE BREAKETH THE BOW AND CUTTETH THE SPEAR IN SUNDER; H...
THE CHURCH'S COMFORT AND SECURITY. To the chief musician, for use in the Temple-services, for the sons of Korah, composed by a member of this talented family, a song upon Alamoth, for soprano voices,...
6-11 Come and see the effects of desolating judgments, and stand in awe of God. This shows the perfect security of the church, and is an assurance of lasting peace. Let us pray for the speedy approac...
He hath ended our wars, and settled us in a firm and well-grounded peace. THE END OF THE EARTH, or _of this land_, to wit, of Israel; from one end of it to the other. He speaks of the bows, and spears...
Psalms 46:9 wars H4421 cease H7673 (H8688) end H7097 earth H776 breaks H7665 (H8762) bow H7198 cuts...
A CALL TO CONSIDER ALL GOD'S MERCIES AND TO RECOGNISE THAT ONE DAY HE WILL BRING EVERLASTING PEACE AND WILL BE EXALTED AMONG THE NATIONS (PSALMS 46:8). Psalms 46:8 ‘Come, behold the works of YHWH,...
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Song upon Alamoth. This Psalm is often called «Martin Luther's Psalm.» Whenever there was any great trouble, Luther used to say, «Let us sing the forty-six...
CONTENTS: A psalm of holy confidence in God. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: God's people may count themselves safe and make themselves strong in Him in whom there is always help sufficient,...
Psalms 46:4. _A river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God._ This was the Gihon, a very copious fountain on the west of Jerusalem, like St. Winnefrid's well in Wales, or the spring at...
_He maketh wars to cease unto the ends of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire._ WAR I. As it affects the happiness of mankind. Think o...
_Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations He hath made in the earth, _ THE DESOLATIONS OF THE LORD, THE CONSOLATIONS OF HIS SAINTS I. a declaration of what has happened. “Come, behold th...
_God is our refuge and strength._ A PSALM OF WAR AND PEACE The psalm is divided into three parts, as the Selahs at the end of the third and seventh verses indicate. The first is shorter by one verse...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 46:1. The psalm is a hymn celebrating Zion as the special city. God has pledged himself to her, and through her he will bless the world. The psalm has two stanzas, marked by...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 46:8 Since BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD is plural, readers should imagine God speaking these words to the NATIONS. This will be the means by which he makes wars cease
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the Chief Musician for the sons of Korah.” See Introduction to Psalms 42. “_A song upon Alamoth_.” Great uncertainty attaches to the meaning of “Alamoth.” Some are o...
EXPOSITION THIS is a psalm of consolation. Israel, in great peril (Psalms 46:1, Psalms 46:6, Psalms 46:8, Psalms 46:9), co
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea (Psalms 46:1-2);...
Ezekiel 39:10; Ezekiel 39:3; Ezekiel 39:9; Isaiah 11:9; Isaiah 2:4;...