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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Psalms 60:8

Verse Psalms 60:8. Moab is my washpot] The Moabites shall be reduced to the meanest slavery.

Over Edom will I cast out my shoe] I will make a complete conquest of Idumea, and subject the Edomites to the meanest offices, as well as the Moabites.

Philistia, triumph thou because of me.] John Hyrcanus subdued the Idumeans, and caused them to receive circumcision, and profess the Jewish religion. The words here seem to predict their entire subjugation.

In an essay for a new translation of the Bible, there is what appears to me a correct paraphrase of the seventh and eighth verses: "Gilead and Manasseh have submitted unto me; Ephraim furnishes me with valiant men, and Judah with men of prudence and wisdom. I will reduce the Moabites to servitude; I will triumph over the Edomites, and make them my slaves; and the Philistines shall add to my triumph."

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    MOAB IS MY WASHPOT - Moab was a region of country on the east of the Dead Sea, extending as far north as the river Arnon. See the notes at Isaiah 15:1. The words rendered wash-pot mean properly a pot...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 60 The Lord with His People _ 1. Confessions and prayer (Psalms 60:1)_ 2. The inheritance anticipated (Psalms 60:6) 3. Faith's certainty ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LX. This Ps. really consists of two bound together in an abrupt style. In A, _i.e._ in Psalms 60:1; Psalms 60:10_ b_, Psalms 60:11 f. we have a lament over the desperate condition of Israel, though th...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MOAB... EDOM. Spoken of as the chattels of. conqueror (2 Samuel 8:12). WASHPOT. footbath: i.e. an ignominious vessel. CAST OUT MY SHOE. Idiom for taking possession. PHILISTIA. Syriac reads "over Ph...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A prayer for deliverance and victory, based upon God's promise to give Israel the possession of Canaan, and supremacy over the neighbouring nations....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The neighbouring nations are reduced to servitude. In strong contrast to the honour assigned to Ephraim and Judah is the disgrace of Moab and Edom. Moab, notorious for its pride (Isaiah 16:6), is comp...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    GILEAD IS MINE, &C.— He exultingly surveys his strength. Gilead and Manasseh comprehended the whole country beyond Jordan, as did Ephraim and Judah on this side; of which Ephraim, containing the main...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 60 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE An Outcry of Anguish, Expostulation and Entreaty, under a Severe Reverse. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 60:1-4, Lamentation over a Defeat. Stanza II., Psalms 60:5-8, Prayer...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _MOAB IS MY WASHPOT; OVER EDOM WILL I CAST OUT MY SHOE: PHILISTIA, TRIUMPH THOU BECAUSE OF ME._ MOAB IS MY WASHPOT - or washing-tub: expressing the ignominious subjection to which David reduced Moab ...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; set to Shushan Eduth: Michtam of David, to teach: when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MOAB.. EDOM.. PHILISTIA] Israel's neighbours on the E., SE., and W. respectively. They are all described as reduced to the lowest subjection. Moab is the vessel in which the conqueror's feet are washe...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MOAB IS MY WASHPOT — _i.e.,_ probably the _footbath,_ a figure expressing great contempt, which receives illustration from the story told of Amasis (Herod. ii. 172) and the golden footpan, which he ha...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 60:10]_ מֹואָ֤ב ׀ סִ֬יר רַחְצִ֗י עַל ־אֱ֭דֹום...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 60:1 THIS psalm has evidently a definite historical background. Israel has been worsted in fight, but still continues its campaign against Edom. Meditating on God's promises, the psalmist antic...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    PRAYER FOR HELP AGAINST FOES Psalms 60:1 This was a national psalm to be _taught_ the people. See title; also Deuteronomy 31:19. A strong coalition had been formed against David at that time. See 2 S...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is a song out of defeat. It may be divided into three parts. The first is a recognition of the cause of defeat, ending with a prayer (verses Psa 60:1-5). The second expresses the answer of God in...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Moab [is] my (k) washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: (l) Philistia, triumph thou because of me. (k) In most vile subjection. (l) For you will lie and pretend you were glad....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Search? Who can comprehend what thou hast prepared for this king? He may allude to the promises made to David's family, (Psalm lxxxviii. 30, 38.; Calmet) which should reign for ever, by means of Chri...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If the Reader will consult 2 Samuel 3:18, he will find somewhat like a prediction concerning the very event to which David looks forward now with such confidence of success; and, considering the victo...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    8_Moab is my wash-pot _In proceeding to speak of foreigners, he observes a wide distinction between them and his own countrymen. The posterity of Abraham he would govern as brethren, and not as slaves...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In Psalms 60 the remnant acknowledge God's having cast them off. Their only hope is, that He will turn to them again. This is exactly the point of Israel's righteousness as a nation: no going for help...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    MOAB [IS] MY WASHPOT,.... To wash hands and feet in: and so the Syriac version, "and Moab the washing of my feet"; a vessel for low and mean service, and so denotes the servile subjection of the Moabi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Moab [is] my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me. Ver. 8. _Moab is my wash pot_] A pot wherein to wash my feet, a vessel of dishonour, such as at my plea...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Moab is my wash-pot_ The _wash-pot_ being a mean article of household stuff, for the use of the feet, (as the Syriac interprets it,) the lowest part of the body, it is a fit title for the Moabites, w...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Moab, here mentioned by way of contrast, IS MY WASH-POT, being obliged to perform the work of a servant in holding a wash-basin for the king; OVER EDOM WILL I CAST OUT MY SHOE, to indicate that this c...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A HYMN OF WAR AND VICTORY. To the chief musician upon Shushaneduth, to be chanted in public worship according to the melody "The Lily of Testimony," this tune indicating also the contents of the psalm...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TRIUMPH THOU BECAUSE OF ME: Or, triumph thou over me: (by an irony)...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-12 If Christ be ours, all things, one way or another, shall be for our eternal good. The man who is a new creature in Christ, may rejoice in all the precious promises God has spoken in his holiness...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MOAB IS MY WASH-POT, in which I shall wash my feet. I shall bring them into the lowest degree of servitude, and make them contemptible and miserable. See 2 SAMUEL 8:2. OVER EDOM, an old, and proud, an...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 60:8 Moab H4124 washpot H5518 H7366 Edom H123 cast H7993 (H8686) shoe H5275 Philistia H6429 triumph...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID CALLS ON GOD TO SAVE THEM BY HIS MIGHTY RIGHT HAND SO THAT THE PEOPLE WHOM HE LOVES MIGHT BE DELIVERED, AND DECLARES THE CERTAINTY OF YHWH'S VICTORY BECAUSE THE SURROUNDING NATIONS ARE SUBJECT T...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prayer for the deliverance of God's people from enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God often gives His own people a hard course in this world that they may not take up their rest...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Psalms 60:1. _Oh God thou hast cast us off;_ or interrogatively, Why hast thou cast us off? At this juncture all the surrounding nations, named here, in the eighty third psalm, and in 2 Samuel 8., see...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Moab is my washpot._ MOAB IS MY WASHPOT “Moab is my wash-pot,” nothing more--a thing contemptible and despicable as compared with the eternal realities of covenant blessings; yet, for all that, ther...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _God hath spoken in His Holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth._ A WAR-SONG OF ISRAEL In this war-song we are given the key to the whole story of Jewish d...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O God, Thou hast cast us off; Thou hast scattered us._ A PSALM OF DEFEAT In our own language we possess many fine songs of patriotism. It would be impossible to overestimate the value of such a song...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 60:1. This is a lament for the whole community of Israel at a time when their continued life in the land is being threatened by Gentile neighbors. The title says it is “for...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 60:6 GOD HAS SPOKEN. The places mentioned in vv. Psalms 2:6 (SHECHEM, SUCCOTH,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—_“To the Chief Musician_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_Upon Shushaneduth_,” is probably a musical direction to the leader of the choir. In the superscription to Psa...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION IN the case of this psalm, the "title" is again our best guide, both with respect to the author and to the occasion of the composition. The title is unusually full, and contains such a numb...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. For thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; fo...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 18:1; 1 Chronicles 18:13; 1 Chronicles 18:2; 2 Samuel 21:15;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Wash — pot — In which I shall wash my feet. I shall bring them into the lowest degree of servitude. Shoe — I will use them like slaves; a proverbial expression. Triumph — It is an ironical expression,...

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