“ God is known in her palaces for a refuge. ”
God is known in her palaces - The word rendered “palaces” here means properly a fortress, castle, or palace, so called from its height, from a verb, ארם 'âram , meaning to elevate, to lift up...
God is known in her palaces for a (d) refuge. (d) Unless God is the defence of it, neither situation nor munition can prevail.
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...
is known . hath made Himself known.
3. God in her palaces is known for a defense Here the sacred poet again brings forward, for the purpose of setting forth the dignity of the city of Jerusalem, the protection which God afford...
God is known in her palaces for a refuge. God is known in her palaces for a refuge - All those who worship there in spirit and truth, find God for their refuge. But the words may be understood: God i...
God is known in her palaces for a refuge. God is known in her palaces for a refuge - literally, 'a high place,' as in Psalms 46:7 ; Psalms 46:11 . God is known by experience to be such a hi...
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...
Refuge. — See Note, Psalms 46:1 . Prominence should be given to the idea of security from height. We might render, “God among her castles is known as a high and secure tower.”
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...
Beautiful and distinguished indeed is the church, the gospel church of Jesus. Is this Zion, said some of old, whom no man looketh after? Yes! But where are those cities the world hath been running af...
God is known in her palaces for a refuge. As there were palaces in Jerusalem; see Psalms 48:13 ; so there are in the church of Christ; every place in it is a palace fit for a king; and everyone th...
God is known in her palaces for a refuge. Ver. 3. God is known in her palaces for a refuge ] As the city was an ornament to the whole country, so was God to the city, as being a common refuge to b...
God is known To his people, by sensible and long experience; in her palaces In the habitations of the city, and not only in the cottages, or meaner dwellings, but in the palaces: the princes and...
The Beauty and Strength of Zion. A song and psalm for the sons of Korah. 1 Great is the L ORD , and greatly to b...
God is known to his people by sensible and long experience, and to all neighbouring nations by their own observation. In her palaces, i. e in the habitations, or to the inhabitants of that city....
The Greatness of God And The Beauty Of The Place Which Represents His Dwelling Among Men ( Psalms 48:1-3 ). Psalms 48:13 ‘Great is YHWH, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, in h...
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.
2 Chronicles 12:7 ; 2 Chronicles 14:9-15 ; 2 Chronicles 20:1-37 ; Isaiah 37:33-36 ; Isaiah 4:5 ; Isaiah 4:6 ; Psalms 1:1 ; Psalms 76:1-5 ; Zechariah 2:4 ; Zechariah 2:5
Known — By long experience. Palaces — Possibly he may point at the king's palace and the temple, which was the palace of the king of heaven; which two palaces God did in a singular manner protect,...