Contents: The people exhorted to shout over God's triumphs.
Characters: God, Psalmist.
Conclusion: Let all who know God and own His sceptre sing His praises forever; for while we dwell under the shadow of such a throne there is eternal reason for thanksgiving.
Key Word: Praises, Psalms 47:6.
Strong Verses: Psalms 47:8.
Striking Facts: The prospect of the coming universal reign of Christ as Prince of Peace is enough to make the tongue of the dumb sing.
PSALM XLVII _The Gentiles are invited to celebrate the praises of God as the_ _Sovereign of the world_, 1, 2. _The Jews exalt in his kindness to them_, 3, 4. _All then join to celebrate his Majest...
O CLAP YOUR HANDS, ALL YE PEOPLE - A common way of expressing joy, or indicating applause. Compare the notes at Isaiah 55:12. The “people” here referred to are probably the Jewish people, and the call...
Psalms 47 He is King Over All the Earth _ 1. In the midst of His people (Psalms 47:1)_ 2. The praise of His delivered people (Psalms 47:6) And now we see prophetically how the redeemed people clap...
XLVII. JOY OF ALL MANKIND IN YAHWEH. All nations are invited to rejoice in Yahweh's exaltation. It seems strange that they should be expected to rejoice in their own defeat; but this is explained by t...
TITLE.. PSALM. Hebrew. _mizmor._ See App-65. Referring to the time of Hezekiah. One of three Psalms (46, 47, 48) in praise of Zion, delivered from Sennacherib's siege. FOR THE SONS OF KORAH. The four...
_all ye people_ Render all ye peoples, here and in Psalms 47:3_; Psalms 47:9a_. It is the nations of the world who are addressed. They are summoned to salute Jehovah, as a new king was saluted on his...
A summons to all nations to acknowledge Jehovah as their King. He has proved His sovereignty by subjecting the nations to His own people and assigning to it the choicest land for its inheritance....
_The nations are exhorted cheerfully to entertain the kingdom of Christ._ To the chief musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. _TITLE._ מזמר קרח לבני למנצח _LAMNATSEACH LIBNEI KORACH MIZMOR._— This...
PSALMS 47 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Israel Invites the Nations to Rejoice in the Universal Kingship of Her God. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 47:1-2, The Invitation Itself, announcing the Central Fact of Jeho...
_O CLAP YOUR HANDS, ALL YE PEOPLE; SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH THE VOICE OF TRIUMPH._ Psalms 47:1.-Call to the nations to join Israel in thanksgiving for deliverance Psalms 47:1.-The victory (Psalms 47:1); th...
47:1 peoples, (a-14) _ Ammim_ . Psalms 7:8 ....
PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.' So in Psalms 47:3; Psalms 47:9....
This Ps., though akin to Psalms 46, 48, is less definitely historical, and simply summons the earth to join in a chorus of praise to God as the victorious King, not only of Israel, but of all the nati...
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...
OF TRIUMPH. — Or, _of exultation,_ as LXX. and Vulg. For the hand-clapping at a time of national rejoicing, such as the coronation of a king, see 2 Kings 11:12 (comp. Psalms 98:8); and for the “shout,...
לַ † מְנַצֵּ֬חַ ׀ לִ בְנֵי ־קֹ֬רַח מִזְמֹֽור׃ ...
Psalms 47:1 THE closing thought of Psalms 46:1 is nobly expanded in this jubilant summons to all nations to praise Jehovah as their King. Both psalms have a similar, and probably the same, historical...
“KING OVER ALL THE EARTH” Psalms 47:1 This psalm may have been sung in the valley of Berachah, where Jehoshaphat celebrated his victory over the Moabites. See 2 Chronicles 20:1. When some great deliv...
This is a song of the sovereignty of God. In the Hebrew ceremonial it was pre-eminently the song of the New Year, being repeated seven times ere the sounding of the trumpets which announce the feast....
"To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah." O (a) clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. (a) Here is figured Christ to whom all his should give willing...
_On the, &c., is not in Hebrew nor Eusebius, &c. It means Sunday, (St. Ambrose; Worthington) or rather Monday, being sung on that day. (St. Jerome, &c.) (Haydock) --- The subject of the former canticl...
CONTENTS In this Psalm the prophet seems to have an eye to the bringing up the ark of God to Zion. But as the ark itself was well understood by the faithful to be a type of the Messiah, surely we may...
Here is a call from one awakened soul to another, nay, to all the people of God, to all the church of the Gentiles also, yet to be called to rejoice in Christ's salvation. The clapping of the hands im...
1._Clap your hands, all ye peoples _As the Psalmist requires the nations, in token of their joy and of their thanksgiving; to God, to clap their hands, or rather exhorts them to a more than ordinary j...
Psalms 47 only pursues this deliverance to its bright results for Israel according to God's glory in the earth. Jehovah is now a great King over all the earth (compare Zechariah 14). He subdues the na...
O CLAP YOUR HANDS, ALL YE PEOPLE, Meaning the Gentiles more especially; see Psalms 117:1 compared with Romans 15:9; who had reason to rejoice and be glad, since the ascended Lord and King here spoken...
Psalms 47:1 «To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. » O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. _A Psalm for the sons of Korah_] _Carmen triumphale,_...
_O clap your hands, all ye people_ All ye tribes of Israel, or, rather, all nations, not only Jews but Gentiles; for all of them would, or might have benefit, if not by the removal of the ark to mount...
O clap your hands, all ye people, the congregation of Jehovah being addressed with the summons to express their unbounded joy in a gesture of exultation which could not be repressed; SHOUT UNTO GOD WI...
THE MESSIAH IN THE GLORY OF HIS EXALTATION. To the chief musician, a psalm for the sons of Korah, written by one of their number at the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, as a prophecy of the victory and...
1-4 The God with whom we have to do, is a God of awful majesty. The universal and absolute sovereignty of a holy God would be too terrible for us even to think of, were it not exercised by his Son fr...
PSALM 47 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm may seem to have been composed upon the occasion of that great solemnity of carrying the ark from the house of Obed-edom into the city of Zion; of which see 2Sa 6$ 1Ch...
Psalms 47:1 Musician H5329 (H8764) Psalm H4210 sons H1121 Korah H7141 clap H8628 (H8798) hands H3709 peoples...
THE NATIONS ARE CALLED ON TO SALUTE YHWH MOST HIGH AS THE GREAT KING OVER ALL THE EARTH WHO HAS ESTABLISHED HIS PEOPLE IN THE CHOICEST OF LANDS (PSALMS 47:1). . Psalms 47:1 Oh clap your hands, all y...
Psalms 47:1. _O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. He shall subdue the people under us...
Psalms 47:1. O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great king over all the earth. He shall subdue the people under us,...
This is the song which the sons of Korah sung before the ark, when it was removed from the city of David to its place in the temple. 2 Chronicles 7 2 Chronicles 7. The ark being a type of Christ, it f...
_O clap your hands, all ye people._ MESSIANIC TRIUMPH PREDICTED The psalmist looked far ahead. His immediate experience was as “a little window through which he saw great matters.” The prophecy of th...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 47:1. This psalm celebrates God’s rule over all the earth (see note on 5:2). The promises to Abraham (Psalms
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the Chief Musician, a psalm for the sons of Korah.” See Introduction to Psalms 42. The author of the psalm, and the occasion on which it was composed, are alike unk...
EXPOSITION THIS is a song of praise to God, as the King of the whole earth. It has been called "one of the _accession _psalms," because it depicts God as assuming his kingdom, and taking his seat upon...
Psa 47:1-9 is a psalm for the New Year. This psalm is read seven times before the blowing of the trumpet to announce the holy day, the beginning of the Jewish New Year. O clap your hands, all ye peopl...
1 Samuel 10:24; 2 Chronicles 13:15; 2 Kings 11:12; 2 Samuel 6:15;...