Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 72:3
The mountains — Which are so dangerous to passengers, in regard of robbers and wild beasts. Hereby it is implied, that other places should do so too, and that it should be common and universal.
The mountains — Which are so dangerous to passengers, in regard of robbers and wild beasts. Hereby it is implied, that other places should do so too, and that it should be common and universal.
Verse Psalms 72:3. _THE MOUNTAINS SHALL BRING PEACE_] Perhaps _mountains_ and _hills_ are here taken in their _figurative_ sense, to signify _princes_ and _petty governors_; and it is a prediction th...
THE MOUNTAINS SHALL BRING PEACE TO THE PEOPLE - The idea in this verse is that the land would be full of peace and the fruits of peace. All parts of it would be covered with the evidences that it was...
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 ...
PEACE. prosperity....
A prayer that God will confer upon the king the gifts which he needs for the right exercise of his office. Then righteousness will bear the fruit of peace; redress and repression of wrong will promote...
Logically this verse forms but one sentence, and the exact reproduction of the Heb. division into two clauses for the sake of rhythm has an awkward effect. The sense is, By righteousness shall the mou...
THE MOUNTAINS SHALL BRING PEACE— _Peace_ is here used for that prosperity, ease, and plenty, which are the effects of peace; when the mountains and hills are cultivated and tilled, and so made capable...
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...
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. THE MOUNTAINS SHALL BRING PEACE TO THE PEOPLE. "Shall bring" - literally, shall lift up, in the sense publish,...
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....
BY RIGHTEOUSNESS] RV 'in righteousness.' Under a righteous government peace will be the fruit that grows on all the wooded slopes of the land: see Isaiah 32:17....
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 MOUNTAINS... — Better, literally, _Let the mountains and the hills bring forth to the people peace in_ (or _by_)_ righteousness._ This imperative sense, instead of the future, is by most modern co...
יִשְׂא֤וּ הָרִ֓ים שָׁ֘לֹ֥ום לָ † עָ֑ם וּ֝...
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...
“KING OF KINGS” Psalms 72:1 Solomon's reign opened as a morning without clouds. Much of the imagery of this royal ode is derived from the circumstances of his life. Compare Psalms 72:1 with his praye...
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 (d) mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. (d) When justice reigns, even the places most barren will be enriched with your blessings....
_Zeal. I was grieved, (Menochius) or even inclined to imitate the wicked; (see Matthew iii. 14., Psalm xxxvi., Jeremias xii., and xxi. 7.) though the whole book is intended to clear up this difficulty...
Isaiah had a similar commission, in speaking of Jesus and his gospel as the peace of God in Christ, when he declared that the very feet of them who were the preachers of it were beautiful; Isaiah 52:7...
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 MOUNTAINS SHALL BRING PEACE TO THE PEOPLE,.... The people of God, as before. Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret this of the nations, and kings of the nations, comparable to mountains and hills, as in...
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. Ver. 3. _The mountains shall bring peace_] _i.e_. They shall not be so pestered and infested by thieves and robb...
_The mountains_, &c. Which are so dangerous to passengers, on account of robbers or wild beasts, which commonly abide there; _shall bring forth peace_ Shall be travelled over, or inhabited, with perfe...
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 mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness, the blessings of God's mercy flowing down upon the believers as it were, in streams. Righteousness is a gift comi...
2-17 This is a prophecy of the kingdom of Christ; many passages in it cannot be applied to the reign of Solomon. There were righteousness and peace at first in the administration of his government; b...
He mentioneth the MOUNTAINS and HILLS, as bringing forth this blessed fruit; either because such places are usually barren, and therefore this was an evidence of extraordinary fruitfulness, and a spec...
Psalms 72:3 mountains H2022 bring H5375 (H8799) peace H7965 people H5971 hills H1389 righteousness H6666 mountains -...
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...
This is a Psalm which relates to the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, not as the Man of sorrows, but as the King of glory; not as David, struggling to secure the throne; but as Solomon, seated upon it,...
«A Psalm for Solomon» much more for one who is greater than Solomon, the true Prince of Peace. Psalms 72:1. _Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son._ So it is...
Psalms 72:1. _Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son._ «Give the king thy judgments, O God.» The right to reign was transmitted by descent from David to Solomon...
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 mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness._ MOUNTAIN PEACE Sympathy between the moral and physical worlds pervades the whole of Scripture and especially t...
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...
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 Corinthians 5:19; Daniel 9:24; Ezekiel 34:13; Ezekiel 34:14;...