Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 72:20
The prayer — This psalm is the last which David composed: for this was wrote but a little before his death.
The prayer — This psalm is the last which David composed: for this was wrote but a little before his death.
Verse Psalms 72:20. _THE PRAYERS OF DAVID THE SON OF JESSE ARE ENDED._] This was most probably the _last Psalm_ he ever wrote. There may be several in the after part of this book which were written b...
THE PRAYERS OF DAVID THE SON OF JESSE ARE ENDED - This is not found in the Syriac. The following is added in that version at the close of the psalm: “The end of the Second Book.” In regard to this twe...
Psalms 72 The Kingdom Psalm __ 1. The King, who reigns in righteousness (Psalms 72:1) 2. His kingdom from sea to sea (Psalms 72:5) 3. The blessings and the kingdom ...
ARE ENDED. are accomplished. When this Psalm is realized, all prophecy concerning Israel will be fulfilled: according to Daniel 9:24, and see 2 Samuel 23:1, where compare the title, "son of Jesse". Th...
Compare the note in Job 31:40 which separates the speeches of Job from those of Elihu and Jehovah. As the Fourth and Fifth Books contain Psalms ascribed to David, this note cannot have been placed her...
THE PRAYERS OF DAVID—ARE ENDED— The whole book of Psalms is one continued proof that there is no regular order preserved in them. It is highly probable, that this is the last psalm which David compose...
PSALMS 72 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A People's Prayer for a Perfect King. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 72:1-4, Prayer for King of Royal Descent, that the Divine Attributes of Justice and Righteousness may be...
Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. -Doxology concluding this whole division of Psalms 1:1; Psalms 2:1; Psalms 3:1;...
Title.—_A Psalm_ for (RV 'of') Solomon. The title in AV suggests that David is the writer, and Solomon the subject, of this Ps., but, as RV shows, the authorship is really ascribed to Solomon. The Ps....
See Intro, to Book 2....
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...
כָּלּ֥וּ תְפִלֹּ֑ות דָּ֝וִ֗ד בֶּן ־יִשָֽׁי׃...
Psalms 72:1 RIGHTLY or wrongly, the superscription ascribes this psalm to Solomon. Its contents have led several commentators to take the superscription in a meaning for which there is no warrant, as...
“HIS NAME SHALL ENDURE FOR EVER” Psalms 72:12 How is it that lands so distant as Tarshish, by the Strait of Gibraltar; so rich as Sheba and Seba in south Arabia; tribes so wild as the Bedouin of the...
This is a great psalm of the Theocracy. Incidentally the whole perfect order is revealed. God high over all enthroned, and in all actively governing. The king, appointed by God, and gaining his guidan...
The (q) prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended. (q) Concerning his son Solomon....
PSALM LXXII. (QUAM BONUS ISRAEL DEUS.) The temptation of the weak upon seeing the prosperity of the wicked, is overcome by the consideration of the justice of God, who will quickly render to every on...
No wonder the Prophet, after such a review as this Psalm records, of the person and glories of Christ, should break out in such an acclamation of praise to Jehovah Elohim, the God in covenant, Father,...
REFLECTIONS HERE let me pause, my soul, and contemplate thy King and God in the glories of his person, and in the blessedness of that reign which shall have no end! Truly, blessed Jesus, thou art a Ki...
20._The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended. _We have before observed that this was not without cause added by Solomon, (if we may suppose him to have put the matter of this psalm into the for...
Psalms 72 introduces us, not to David in suffering and conflict, but to the full reign of peace and royal blessing. It is the Son of David we have here, the source and securer of millennial blessings....
THE PRAYERS OF DAVID THE SON OF JESSE ARE ENDED. The Septuagint version renders it, the hymns. This psalm is thought by some to be the last that was written by David, though put in this place; and it...
The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended. Ver. 20. _The prayers of David are ended_] That is, this was his last prayer (in time, though not in order), and is therefore well to be considered. O...
THE MAJESTIC REIGN OF THE MESSIAH. A psalm for Solomon, composed by Solomon; for he, under whose wise reign Israel reached the summit of its glory and power and was filled with the blessings of the L...
The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended, this remark being apparently attached to an original collection of David's hymns....
18-20 We are taught to bless God in Christ, for all he has done for us by him. David is earnest in prayer for the fulfilment of this prophecy and promise. It is sad to think how empty the earth is of...
This Psalm is called the last of David's Psalms; (which are called prayers, because they consist very much of prayers;) either, 1. The last of that part or book of the Psalms, which reached from the b...
Psalms 72:20 prayers H8605 David H1732 son H1121 Jesse H3448 ended H3615 (H8795) The prayers -...
ENDED Literally, to be ended, that is, in complete answer. (2 Samuel 23:1)....
A Psalm for Solomon. This was David's dying bequest to his son Solomon, but a greater than Solomon is here, for this Psalm concerns the reign, triumph, and everlasting dominion of our Lord Jesus Chri...
CONTENTS: The glories of the reign of the coming King. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: A day is coming when all shall sing «All hail the power of Jesus name, let angels prostrate fall; bring for...
The Hebrew doctors have transmitted this psalm as the last that David composed. It was sung at the inauguration of Solomon to the throne, when Zadok had anointed him to be king over Israel, and when t...
_Give the king Thy judgments, O God, and Thy righteousness unto the king’s son._ THE WORLD-WANTED KING Society cannot exist without laws: these laws require to be expressed and enforced, and whoever...
_The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended._ DAVID AS PSALMIST Why were such oceans of feeling poured into David’s soul, such true and graceful utterance of poetry infused into his lips, and su...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 72:1. The last psalm of Book 2 is a royal psalm. It is a prayer that David’s heirs might be faithful kings. That means ruling God’s people well, protecting the poor and need...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 72:18 MAY THE WHOLE EARTH BE FILLED WITH HIS GLORY. That is, may the whole earth be the sanctuary where God makes his presence known (see note on Isa. 6:3)....
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_A Psalm for Solomon_.” Margin: “Of Solomon.” Hengstenberg: “Solomon is named in the title as the _author_ of the Psalm. Attempts have been made, to no purpose, to inte...
EXPOSITION THE "title" attributes this psalm to Solomon, and the contents of the psalm are very favourable to his authorship. The prayer in Psalms 72:1 is an echo of that recorded in 1 Kings 3:9. The...
Psa 72:1-20 is entitled, "A Psalm for Solomon." As we read this, we find that it goes far beyond Solomon and actually is a prophecy of that Son that was promised to David, even Jesus Christ, who would...
2 Samuel 23:1; Jeremiah 51:64; Job 31:40; Luke 24:51...