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FOR, LO, THE KINGS WERE ASSEMBLED - There is evidently allusion here
to some fact that had occurred; some gathering together of kings and
their armies, with a view to besiege or attack Jerusalem. The...
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Psalms 48
The Judgment of the Nations and the Millennium
_ 1. Jerusalem the city of the King (Psalms 48:1)_
2. The confederated nations scattered (Psalms 48:4)
3. The millennium ...
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XLVIII. A PSALM WHICH DESCRIBES THE IMPRESSION MADE ON A PILGRIM BY
HIS VISIT TO ZION.
Psalms 48:1 f. Praise of Zion. SIDES OF THE NORTH is hard to
comprehend. It has been explained as contrasting Zio...
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LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos._
THE KINGS: i.e. the vassal kings of Sennacherib....
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Jehovah's revelation of Himself as Zion's protector in the recent
discomfiture of her enemies....
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For, lo, the kings assembled themselves (R.V.): Sennacherib's vassal
kings (Isaiah 10:8) met at their rendezvous (cp. Psalms 2:2): they
passed over together; uniting their forces they crossed the fron...
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PSALMS 48
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Jehovah Worthy to be Praised in his Holy City, whose History rebounds
to the Honour of her Shepherd-King, who will yet Lead Israel against
Death.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psa...
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_FOR, LO, THE KINGS WERE ASSEMBLED, THEY PASSED BY TOGETHER._
For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together - `they
passed utterly and altogether away.' The object of their assembling is...
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This Ps. celebrates the safety and glory of Jerusalem, and the praise
of her divine King. The deliverance He has wrought is vividly
portrayed, and we can hardly fail to recognise that the overthrow of...
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KINGS] The vassal kings of Sennacherib (Isaiah 10:8). They gather and
march in order till they see Jerusalem. Then they are amazed, and
forced to turn back in confusion....
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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...
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THE KINGS. — With the striking picture of the advance and sudden
collapse of a hostile expedition that follows, comp. Isaiah 10:28;
possibly of the very same event.
THE KINGS. — Evidently known to the...
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_[Psalms 48:5]_ כִּֽי ־הִנֵּ֣ה הַ֭ מְּלָכִים
נֹֽועֲד֑וּ...
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Psalms 48:1
THE situation seems the same as in Psalms 46:1, with which this psalm
has many points of contact. In both we have the same triumph, the same
proud affection for the holy city and sanctuary...
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“THE CITY OF OUR GOD”
Psalms 48:1
This psalm also probably dates from 2 Chronicles 20:20. Tekoa was only
three hours' march from Jerusalem and commanded an extensive view, so
that Psalms 48:4 were li...
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In Psa 46:1-11 the dominant note was of confidence, because of the
government of God in the midst of His people. This is a song
describing the experience resulting from such government. It is the
anth...
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For, lo, the kings were (e) assembled, they passed by together.
(e) They conspired and went against God's people....
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All the powers of the world were confederate against Israel, when
first God made her a church. And all the powers of the world were
confederate when first the gospel was made known. Hell hath been up...
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4_For, behold! the kings assembled _Here that special deliverance of
which I have spoken is touched upon. The prophet relates how, when the
kings were assembled together to destroy Jerusalem, their ef...
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Psalms 48 completes this series. Jehovah is fully established as
Israel's God in Zion, now the praise of the whole earth, the city of
the great King, and in whose palaces God is well known as a refuge...
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FOR, LO, THE KINGS WERE ASSEMBLED,.... As the princes of the
Philistines to seek for David, when in the strong hold of Zion, 2
Samuel 5:17; as the Ethiopians in the time of Asa, 2 Chronicles 14:9;
and...
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For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
Ver. 4. _For, lo, the kings were assembled_] The princes of the
Philistines, 2 Samuel 5:5. Or, Sennacherib's princes, which were all
kings,...
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_For lo, the kings were assembled_ The neighbouring princes
confederate against Jerusalem: see the contents. _They passed by_ In
their march toward Jerusalem. They advanced, and marched on, not
doubti...
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ZION AS A TYPE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
A song and psalm for the sons of Korah, written by one of their number
to set forth the privileges and blessings of God's dominion in His
Church....
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For, lo, the kings, the same enemies of Zion which are mentioned in
Psalms 2, WERE ASSEMBLED, THEY PASSED BY TOGETHER, in a confederacy to
attack the city of God....
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1-7 Jerusalem is the city of our God: none on earth render him due
honour except the citizens of the spiritual Jerusalem. Happy the
kingdom, the city, the family, the heart, in which God is great, in...
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Either those kings confederate against Jehoshaphat, 2CH 20; or the
Assyrian princes, whom they vain-gloriously called KINGS, ISAIAH 10:8.
THEY PASSED BY, in their march towards Jerusalem. Or, _they pa...
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Psalms 48:4 kings H4428 assembled H3259 (H8738) by H5674 (H8804)
together H3162
Psalms 83:2
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THE NATIONS QUAIL BEFORE THE POWER OF GOD IN HIS HOLY HILL (PSALMS
48:4).
The glory of the dwellingplace of the Great God is such that the
nations quail before Him. Though they may assemble themselves...
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Psalms 48
There is one event, and only one, in Jewish history which corresponds
point for point to the details of this Psalm the crushing destruction
of the Assyrian army under Sennacherib. We may, wi...
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A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. It is not every Psalm that is
a song, for some Psalms are full of sorrow and it is not every song
that is a Psalm, for, alas! there are many songs that are mere...
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Psalms 48:1. _Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city
of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation,
the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of...
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CONTENTS: Praise of the beauty and strength of Mount Zion, the city of
God.
CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist.
CONCLUSION: There is one city which is the world's star (Jerusalem),
the most precious pearl of...
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Title. _A psalm for the sons of Korah._ Asaph being dead, and his sons
not named, we infer that the psalm, as many think, was composed on the
Assyrian invasion; for then God was truly great in Zion, i...
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_Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised._
A SONG OF DELIVERANCE
The psalm has manifestly some historical basis. What is it? The psalm
gives these points--a formidable muster before Jerusalem of...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 48:1. Like Psalms 46:1, Psalms 48:1 is a
hymn celebrating Z
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription_. “_A Song and Psalm_.” “It is not easy,” says
Barnes, “to account for this double appellation, or to distinguish
between the meaning of these words, though _probably_ the...
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EXPOSITION
HERE we have another psalm of thanksgiving for a deliverance, but not
apparently for the same deliverance as gave occasion for either of the
two preceding psalms. Israel had now been delive...
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Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God,
in the mountains of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of
the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, th...
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2 Samuel 10:14; 2 Samuel 10:16; 2 Samuel 10:6; Isaiah 10:8; Isa
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The kings — Either those kings confederate against Jehoshaphat, 2
Chronicles 20:1, or the Assyrian princes; whom they vain —
gloriously called kings, Isaiah 10:8. Passed — In their march
towards Jerus...