“ Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. ”
Walk about Zion - This is a call on all persons to go round the city; to take a survey of it; to see how beautiful and how strong it was - how it had escaped all danger, and was uninjured by the...
(l) Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. (l) For in this outward defence and strength God's blessings also appeared, but the chief is to be referred to God's favour and...
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 contras...
Walk about. They were now free to do this. towers. Many discovered on the east side of Ophel in recent excavations.
12 and 13 Encompass Zion, etc. Here the prophet again commends the situation and beauty of Jerusalem, intimating that the city was strongly fortified and impregnable; and he does this, beca...
DISCOURSE: 581 THE CHURCH’S SECURITY IN GOD Psalms 48:12-14 . Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof: mark ye well her bulwarks; consider her palaces; that ye may tell...
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Walk about Zion - Consider the beauty and magnificence of the temple, count the towers by which it is fortified.
Let mount Zion rejoice, &c.— Dr. Delaney thinks that these verses allude to the great improvements made at Jerusalem, the temple on mount Moriah, Millo, the house of the forest of Lebanon, the...
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Tell the towers thereof - number them, to see that not one is wanting, and that the enemies' formidable invasion has not in t...
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 o...
Walk about Zion. — Notice here the strong patriotic feeling of Hebrew song. The inhabitants of the city are invited to make a tour of inspection of the defences which, under God’s providence, have...
Psalms 48:1-14 THE situation seems the same as in Psalms 46:1-11 , with which this psalm has many points of contact. In both we have the same triumph, the same proud affection for the holy city a...
“The City of Our God” Psalms 48:1-14 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...
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 ant...
Strangers are challenged to see if they can discover any tokens like ruin, or want, or misery. No! Zion still flourisheth, and must flourish, and be a perfection of beauty. Her ordinances, her courts...
Walk about Zion, and go round about her ,.... These words are either an address to the enemies of the church, sarcastically delivered; calling upon them to come, and surround, and besiege Zion, and...
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Ver. 12. Walk about Sion, and tell the towers thereof ] q.d. Are they not still the same and as many as they were before the app...
Walk about Zion , &c. He speaks probably to the people of the city and kingdom, who had been eye-witnesses of the glorious work God had wrought for their deliverance. Bishop Patrick thus paraphr...
God's Care of His Church. 8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the L ORD of hosts, in the city of our Go...
He speaketh, either, 1. To the enemies, as triumphing over them. Or rather, 2. To the people of that city and kingdom, who had been eye-witnesses of this glorious work of God, as appears from the...
The Triumphant Inspection ( Psalms 48:12-14 ). This may well originally have indicated a celebratory inspection of the walls carried out in triumphal procession in order to give thanksgiving to Go...
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 t...
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...
Psalms 48:1-3 . 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 side...
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,...
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 Jerusale...
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 bee...
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.
Isaiah 33:18-20 ; Matthew 24:1 ; Matthew 24:2 ; Nehemiah 12:31-40
Tell — He bids them mark well her towers, bulwarks, and palaces, with thankfulness to God, when they should find upon enquiry, that not one of them were demolished.