Psalms 72:12

Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him. -All kings shall serve, Him because He is the Saviour of the needy. 'True love conquers; men feel it at last, weep bitterly, and fall down at its knees like children' (Hengstenberg). Verse 12. FOR HE SHALL DELIVER THE NEEDY WHEN HE CRIETH. Compare Job 29:12. He will not suffer might to trample down right, or the weaker to be the prey of the strong. This wins all hearts to Him. Verse 13. HE SHALL SPARE THE POOR - i:e., He will not allow them to be oppressed Messiah is the poor man's king, like the Father (Psalms 68:5). AND SHALL SAVE THE SOULS OF THE NEEDY. The right of saving them was established at His first coming ...

12._For he will deliver the poor when he crieth to him. _The Psalmist again affirms that the kingdom which he magnifies so greatly will not be tyrannical or cruel. The majority of kings, neglecting the well-being of the community, have their minds wholly engrossed with their own private interests. The consequence is, that they unmercifully oppress their miserable subjects; and it even happens that the more formidable any of them is, and the more absorbing his rapacity, he is accounted so much the more eminent and illustrious. But it is far different with the king here described. It has been held as a proverb by all mankind, “That there is nothing in which men approach nearer to God than by their beneficence;” and it would be very inconsistent did not this virtue shine forth in those kings whom God has more nearly linked to himself. Accordingly, David, to render the king beloved who was c...

2-17 This is a prophecy of the kingdom of Christ; many passages in it cannot be applied to the reign of Solomon. There were righteousness and peace at first in the administration of his government; but, before the end of his reign, there were troubles and unrighteousness. The kingdom here spoken of is to last as long as the sun, but Solomon's was soon at an end. Even the Jewish expositors understood it of the kingdom of the Messiah. Observe many great and precious promises here made, which were to have full accomplishment only in the kingdom of Christ. As far as his kingdom is set up, discord and contentions cease, in families, churches, and nations. The law of Christ, written in the heart, disposes men to be honest and just, and to render to all their due; it likewise disposes men to live in love, and so produces abundance of peace. Holiness and love shall be lasting in Christ's kingdo...

Verse Psalms 72:12. _HE SHALL DELIVER THE NEEDY WHEN HE CRIETH_] The poor and the rich shall, in the administration of justice, be equally respected; and the strong shall not be permitted to oppress the weak....

FOR HE SHALL DELIVER THE NEEDY WHEN HE CRIETH - The sufferer; the down-trodden; the oppressed. See the notes at Psalms 72:4. Compare the notes at Isaiah 61:1. THE POOR ALSO ... - All who have no protector; all who are exposed to injustice and wrong from others. This is everywhere declared to be the characteristic of the reign of the Messiah. See the notes at Isaiah 11:4....

EXPOSITION THE "title" attributes this psalm to Solomon, and the contents of the psalm are very favourable to his authorship. The prayer in Psalms 72:1 is an echo of that recorded in 1 Kings 3:9. The stress laid upon "peace" (1 Kings 3:3, 1 Kings 3:7) accords with the peaceful reign (1 Kings 4:20-11) of "the peaceful one." The local allusions (1 Kings 3:10, 1 Kin

FOR HE SHALL DELIVER THE NEEDY WHEN HE CRIETH,.... Such as are not only in want, but are sensible of it, see their need of Christ and his righteousness, and salvation by him, and cry to him for the same, under a sense of their misery and danger; these he delivers out of all their troubles, and out of the hands of all their enemies, and supplies all their need; THE POOR ALSO; the poor in spirit; who acknowledge their spiritual poverty, and apply to him for the true riches; to these he gives gold tried in the fire, that they may be rich; he gives them grace here, and glory hereafter; AND [HIM] THAT HATH NO HELPER; that is in an helpless condition; can neither help himself, nor can any creature, angel or man, give him any help: but this being laid on Christ, and found in him, is given to him, whereby he is delivered out of a miserable state into a very comfortable and happy one; and such...

«A Psalm for Solomon» much more for one who is greater than Solomon, the true Prince of Peace. Psalms 72:1. _Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son._ So it is decreed, and so it has been accomplished, that Jesus, who is both a King and a King's son, should have all judgment delivered into his hand. And now at this time Christ is the judge. It is he who discerns between the precious and the vile. He sits as King in the midst of Zion. Psalms 72:2. _He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment._ The kingdom of Christ has a special eye to the poor. They are generally passed by and forgotten in the scope of legislature among men, but Christ makes even his poor people the poor in spirit also to be t

Psalms 72 The Kingdom Psalm __ 1. The King, who reigns in righteousness (Psalms 72:1) 2. His kingdom from sea to sea (Psalms 72:5) 3. The blessings and the kingdom (Psalms 72:12) The last Psalm of this Exodus section describes the establishment of the promised kingdom, the kingdom of heaven on earth. Surely the Spirit of God directed the arrangement of the Psalms, and put each into the right place. Here we have a beautiful prophecy of what is yet to be and for which all is waiting now, in a time when every form of government has failed and law and order seems to go to pieces. The King and the King's So

THE NEEDY. a helpless one. Hebrew. _'ebyon._ See note on Proverbs 6:11....