Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 48:12
Tell — He bids them mark well her towers, bulwarks, and palaces, with thankfulness to God, when they should find upon enquiry, that not one of them were demolished.
Tell — He bids them mark well her towers, bulwarks, and palaces, with thankfulness to God, when they should find upon enquiry, that not one of them were demolished.
Verse Psalms 48:12. _WALK ABOUT ZION_] Consider the beauty and magnificence of the temple, count the towers by which it is fortified....
WALK ABOUT ZION - This is a call on all persons to go round the city; to take a survey of it; to see how beautiful and how strong it was - how it had escaped all danger, and was uninjured by the attem...
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...
WALK ABOUT. They were now free to do this. TOWERS. Many discovered on the east side of Ophel in recent excavations....
The lessons of deliverance....
DISCOURSE: 581 THE CHURCH’S SECURITY IN GOD Psalms 48:12. _Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof: mark ye well her bulwarks; consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to th...
LET MOUNT ZION REJOICE, &C.— Dr. Delaney thinks that these verses allude to the great improvements made at Jerusalem, the temple on mount Moriah, Millo, the house of the forest of Lebanon, the palace...
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...
_WALK ABOUT ZION, AND GO ROUND ABOUT HER: TELL THE TOWERS THEREOF._ Tell the towers thereof - number them, to see that not one is wanting, and that the enemies' formidable invasion has not in the lea...
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...
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...
WALK ABOUT ZION. — Notice here the strong patriotic feeling of Hebrew song. The inhabitants of the city are invited to make a tour of inspection of the defences which, under God’s providence, have pro...
_[Psalms 48:13]_ סֹ֣בּוּ צִ֭יֹּון וְ הַקִּיפ֑וּהָ סִ֝פְר֗וּ...
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...
(l) Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. (l) For in this outward defence and strength God's blessings also appeared, but the chief is to be referred to God's favour and s...
Sepulchres. Hebrew Kobrom is better than the present Kirbam, their "interior," and is adopted by the Chaldean, Syriac, &c. (Calmet) --- "Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for e...
Strangers are challenged to see if they can discover any tokens like ruin, or want, or misery. No! Zion still flourisheth, and must flourish, and be a perfection of beauty. Her ordinances, her courts,...
12and 13_Encompass Zion, etc. _Here the prophet again commends the situation and beauty of Jerusalem, intimating that the city was strongly fortified and impregnable; and he does this, because in thes...
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...
WALK ABOUT ZION, AND GO ROUND ABOUT HER,.... These words are either an address to the enemies of the church, sarcastically delivered; calling upon them to come, and surround, and besiege Zion, and see...
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Ver. 12. _Walk about Sion, and tell the towers thereof_] _q.d._ Are they not still the same and as many as they were before the appro...
_Walk about Zion_, &c. He speaks probably to the people of the city and kingdom, who had been eye-witnesses of the glorious work God had wrought for their deliverance. Bishop Patrick thus paraphrases...
Walk about Zion, taking the opportunity of examining the Church closely, both in its appearance and in its work, AND GO ROUND ABOUT HER; TELL THE TOWERS THEREOF, counting the many means of defense whi...
ZION AS A TYPE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. A song and psalm for the sons of Korah, written by one of their number to set forth the privileges and blessings of God's dominion in His Church....
8-14 We have here the improvement which the people of God are to make of his glorious and gracious appearances for them. Let our faith in the word of God be hereby confirmed. Let our hope of the stab...
He speaketh, either, 1. To the enemies, as triumphing over them. Or rather, 2. To the people of that city and kingdom, who had been eye-witnesses of this glorious work of God, as appears from the fol...
Psalms 48:12 about H5437 (H8798) Zion H6726 around H5362 (H8685) Count H5608 (H8798) towers H4026 W
THE TRIUMPHANT INSPECTION (PSALMS 48:12). This may well originally have indicated a celebratory inspection of the walls carried out in triumphal procession in order to give thanksgiving to God, and i...
Psalms 48:11 I. There are times when heart and brain fail and are weary beneath the weight of the years that have been and the thought of those that are yet to be, times when the whole being sinks bac...
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...
_As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of Hosts, in the city of our God._ “AS WE HAVE HEARD, SO HAVE WE SEEN” This is seldom true. In many places we see what we have not heard, a...
_Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof._ THE LOVE OF ZION So they revered the city on the hill. Their affections clustered round about its sacred courts. They loved the ver...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 48:1. Like Psalms 46:1, Psalms 48:1 is a hymn celebrating Z
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 48:12 The worshipers know that God’s people are secure. They are commissioned to TELL THE NEXT GENERATION of their security and their mission....
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...
Isaiah 33:18; Matthew 24:1; Matthew 24:2; Nehemiah 12:31...