Title.. Psalm. See App-65.
when. The first psalm with an historical title. See App-63 and App-64. Compare. Samuel, Chapter s 15-18.
how...! Figure of speech Exclamatio (App-6), for emphasis.
increased. multiplied.
Many. what multitudes.
PSALM III _David complains, in great distress, of the number of his_ _enemies, and the reproaches they cast on him, as one forsaken_ _of God_, 1, 2; _is confident, notwithstanding, that God will...
LORD, HOW ARE THEY INCREASED - How are they multiplied; or, how numerous they are. Perhaps the idea is, that at first they seemed to be comparatively few in number, but had now so multiplied as to end...
:Title A PSALM OF DAVID - literally, belonging to David; that is, belonging to him as the author. This is marked in the Hebrew as the first verse, and so in the Syriac version, the Latin Vulgate, and...
Psalms 3 SORROWS AND TRIALS OF THE GODLY REMNANT (3-7) _ 1. Persecution and comfort (Psalms 3:1)_ 2. Arise Jehovah! Save me, O my God (Psalms 3:5) The five Psalms which follow bring before us the g...
III. A MORNING HYMN OF TRIUMPH AND PEACE. It is a king or party leader who speaks, but who he was or when he wrote we cannot say. The conjecture in the title is of no value except as an extreme instan...
_The security of God's protection._ A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son. _TITLE._— לדוד מזמור _mizmor ledavid;_ the word _mizmor_ comes from זמר _zemer,_ to _cut,_ to _etch_ or _engrav...
LORD, HOW ARE THEY INCREASED THAT TROUBLE ME!— This psalm answers in every part of it to the inscription. When David was resettled on his throne he penned it, to commemorate both his danger and his de...
PSALMS 3 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Conspiracy, Confidence, Courage and Victory. Chief Conspirator left Unnamed! ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 3:1-2, A Surprising Conspiracy. Stanza II., Psalms 3:3-4, Unshaken...
_LORD, HOW ARE THEY INCREASED THAT TROUBLE ME! MANY ARE THEY THAT RISE UP AGAINST ME._ Title. - A PSALM, х_ MIZMOWR_ (H4210), from the Piel conjugation of _ ZAAMAR_ (H2167), to sing]. Gesenius explain...
3:1 trouble (m-18) See Psalms 8:2 , 'adversaries' and Note o....
INCREASED] cp. 2 Samuel 15:12; 2 Samuel 15:13....
This is the first of the 'Davidic' Psalms. It is a morning prayer as Psalms 3:6 suggests. The heading of the Ps. provides a historical setting for it in the revolt of Absalom, and it is the only Ps. s...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
HOW... MANY. — “And Absalom and _all the people,_ the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem” (2 Samuel 16:15). Ahithophel counsels Absalom to take 12,000 men, and go in instant pursuit of the fugitive. Hus...
מִזְמֹ֥ור לְ דָוִ֑ד בְּ֝ בָרְחֹ֗ו מִ פְּנֵ֤י
Psalms 3:1 ANOTHER pair of psalms follows the two of the Introduction. They are closely connected linguistically, structurally, and in subject. The one is a morning, the other an evening hymn, and pos...
MORNING AND EVENING PRAYERS Psalms 3:1; Psalms 4:1 These psalms probably date from David's flight before Absalom, 2 Samuel 16:1. It is the perfection of trust to be able to sleep when our foes are ma...
This is a morning psalm. It is the song of a soul in grave peril as a new day dawns. The consciousness of difficulty is first uttered. Adversaries are increased, and the bitterest part of the pain is...
"A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son." LORD, how are they (a) increased that trouble me! many [are] they that rise up against me. (a) This was a token of his stable faith, that for al...
CONTENTS The title of this Psalm best leads to the contents of it. The first and literal sense of this Psalm should seem to refer wholly to David; but, to an enlightened eye, there is much to be seen...
Sacred history teaches that David was not only dethroned, but forsaken by almost all men; so that he had well nigh as many enemies as he had subjects. It is true there accompanied him in his flight a...
The first, Psalms 3, gives the condition in general in contrast with Psalms 2, and the support and confidence of faith in it. The troublers of the godly man are multiplied, haughty, and triumphing ove...
LORD, HOW ARE THEY INCREASED THAT TROUBLE ME?.... David's enemies increased in the conspiracy against him, 2 Samuel 15:12; the hearts of the men of Israel were after Absalom, and against him. Christ's...
Psalms 3:1 «A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. » LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many [are] they that rise up against me. _A Psalm of David_] Tremellius addeth, _Quem...
_Lord, how are they increased that trouble me?_ He might well say so, for the party that sought his ruin was very numerous and very formidable. Absalom his son had stolen away the hearts of the genera...
Lord, how are they increased that trouble me, the idea of their increasing number being brought home to David by the fact that his own son had joined their ranks. MANY ARE THEY THAT RISE UP AGAINST ME...
MORNING PRAYER OF A CHRISTIAN IN DANGER AND AFFLICTION. A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom, his son, 2 Samuel 15:14, probably written on the morning after the day of the flight, when David s...
1-3 An active believer, the more he is beaten off from God, either by the rebukes of providence, or the reproaches of enemies, the faster hold he will take, and the closer will he cleave to him. A ch...
PSALM 3 Composed by David, as this phrase implies, PSALMS 110:1, compared with MATTHEW 22:43, and generally elsewhere. When he fled, or, after he had fled. Either this Psalm was composed in his flight...
Psalms 3:1 Psalm H4210 David H1732 fled H1272 (H8800) from H6440 Absalom H53 son H1121 LORD H3068 increased...
SECTION 1. THE DISTRESS IN WHICH HE FOUND HIMSELF. ‘YHWH, how are my adversaries multiplied, Many are those who rise up against me, Many are those who say of my life (nephesh), “There is no help ...
These may be called very properly morning and evening Psalms. The third Psalm is the morning Psalm. A psalm of David when he fled from Absalom, his son. A dark hour that for David, preceded by the sha...
CONTENTS: A prayer of David (when he fled from Absalom). CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God is a shield for His trusting people. He wards off the fiery darts of Satan and the storms of trouble,...
Psalms 3:4. _Selah._ This word, as all seem agreed, refers to the singing and music only, the better to adapt changes of airs to the sentiments of the psalm; and yet the sense is given with much diver...
_Lord, how are they increased that trouble me._ MORNING THOUGHTS With returning day there comes back on the monarch’s heart the recollection of the enemies who threaten him, a nation up in arms again...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 3:1. This is the first psalm with a title. The title names David as the author and ties the psalm to Absalom’s rebellion (2 Samuel 15:1). Fou
MINORITIES AND MAJORITIES _Introduction_ “The preceding psalm had set before us the utter vanity of all attempts to injure the throne of God’s anointed King—Messiah. The present psalm relates to tha...
EXPOSITION Tins psalm is entitled, "a Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son;" literally, "in his flight from Absalom his son." The historical correctness of the title has been questioned (H...
The third psalm is a psalm of David when he was fleeing from Absalom. Going over the Mount of Olives and out towards the Judean wilderness on news that Absalom was coming with an army from Hebron. And...
2 Samuel 15:12; 2 Samuel 16:15; 2 Samuel 17:11; 2 Samuel 18:33;...
DAVID'S TRUST IN GOD Psalms 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As an introduction to the Third Psalm we want to give you a vision of the young man Absalom, the son of David, who is described as the basis of Da...
THE PREFATORY PSALMS Psalms 1:1, _Psalms 2:1, and Psalms 3:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The first chapter of the Psalm is its preface. You may call it, if you wish, the prefatory Psalm. It gives you the ke...
How could David have written this Psalm when critics insist that most Psalms were not completed until much later? PROBLEM: The inscription on this psalm, as on many others, says, “A Psalm of David.”...