Psalms 45:16

Instead of thy fathers&c. The wish does not, as is sometimes said, imply a long line of royal ancestors, and therefore exclude the reference of the Psalm to Solomon, but rather the reverse. If he cannot boast of a long ancestry, may he at least be famous for a numerous and distinguished posterity.

whom thou mayest&c. Better, whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth (R.V.). We might render in all the land, and compare Solomon's governors (1 Kings 4:7 ff.), and the -princes of the provinces" in the Northern Kingdom (1 Kings 20:14-15), and Rehoboam's settlement of his sons in different fortified cities (2 Chronicles 11:23). But the reference to subject and allied peoples (Psalms 45:5; Psalms 45:17) makes it probable that in all the earthis right. Cp. Psalms 2:8; Psalms 72:8 ff.