Psalms 68:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil. ”

• Psalms 68:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Kings of armies did flee apace - Margin, as in Hebrew, did flee, did flee. This is the Hebrew mode of expressing that which is emphatic or superlative. It is by simply repeating the word. The ide...

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• Psalms 68:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Kings of armies did flee apace: and (i) she that tarried at home divided the spoil. (i) The prayer was so great, that not only the soldiers, but the women also had part of it.

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• Psalms 68:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  LXVIII. A Song of Triumph. The most difficult of all the Pss. In some places the text is so corrupt that it defies any attempt at emendation, and the VSS give little, if any, help. The historical a...

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• Psalms 68:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Kings, &c. Verses Psa 12:13, are the words of the women. did flee apace. The rendering of the Figure of speech Epizeuxis. Hebrew "did flee, did flee". Compare Judges 5:19 ; Judges 7:25 ....

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• Psalms 68:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil. Kings of armies did flee - Rabin and the kings of the Canaanites, who united their forces to overwhelm the Israelites....

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• Psalms 68:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Kings of armies did flee apace— In the original it is, fled away, fled away; the reduplication of the words denoting their hasty flight and utter dissipation. The kings who commanded the armies w...

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• Psalms 68:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. -God's doings for His people from the time of their entrance into Canaan until the setting up of the sanctuary in Zion...

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• Psalms 68:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  This is one of the grandest of the Pss., but its origin and date are involved in much obscurity. It contains expressions borrowed from the Blessing of Moses ( Deuteronomy 33 ) and the Song of Deborah...

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• Psalms 68:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (11-14) These verses refer to the conquest of Canaan, the long history of which is, however, here crowded into one supreme and crowning moment: a word from God, and all was done.

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• Psalms 68:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 68:1-35 THIS superb hymn is unsurpassed, if not unequalled, in grandeur, lyric fire, and sustained rush of triumphant praise. It celebrates a victory; but it is the victory of the God who e...

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• Psalms 68:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Their Mighty Deliverer Psalms 68:12-25 The processional march still continues. Presently Mount Zion comes in sight, and the neighboring hills are depicted as eying it enviously for its selectio...

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• Psalms 68:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This psalm sings the praise of the God of deliverances. It opens with a song of pure praise (verses Psa 68:1-6). This is then justified by a review of God's past dealings with His people (verses Psa...

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• Psalms 68:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  If we read these triumphs in a spiritual sense, with reference to the preaching of the everlasting gospel, the subject will be infinitely heightened above that of the mere history. The Lord indeed ga...

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• Psalms 68:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Kings of armies did flee apace ,.... Or "they fled, they fled" y; or "they flee, they flee". This is either the subject matter of the word "published", the words of the publishers so saying; or the...

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• Psalms 68:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil. Ver. 12. Kings of armies did flee apace ] Heb. did flee, did flee. Or, shall flee, shall flee; which one interpretet...

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• Psalms 68:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Kings of armies The kings of the Midianites, of Canaan, and other nations, which came forth against the Israelites with numerous and powerful armies; did flee apace Hebrew, ידדונ ידדונ, jiddodun...

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• Psalms 68:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Thankful Praises to God; Mercies Recollected.       7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march...

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• Psalms 68:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Kings of armies; the kings of Canaan and other nations which came forth against the Israelites, accompanied with great and numerous armies. The spoil was so much, that there was enough, not only...

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• Psalms 68:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician .” See Introduction to Psalms 57 . “ A Psalm or Song of David .” See Introduction to Psalms 48 . The Superscription does not mention the occ...

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• Psalms 68:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  This was a Psalm sung, at the removing of the ark, when it was taken up to its resting-place on Mount Zion. All the tribes were gathered together, and, in full pomp, they marched along, bearing the s...

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• Psalms 68:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  This psalm is the Carmen seculare of the Hebrews, and far surpasses the Te Deum of the christians. It has justly been eulogized in the whole succession of theological composition,. The song burst...

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• Psalms 68:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  O God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, when Thou didst march through the wilderness. The progress of humanity I. It commences with the Divinely terrible ( Psalms 68:7-8 ). As a rule,...

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• Psalms 68:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THIS psalm is one of triumphant praise and jubilation, the crown and gem of the Second Book. Professor Cheyne calls it "a patriotic and religious ode of wondrous range and compass,...

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• Psalms 68:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Of the Messiah's Exaltation. To the chief musician, a psalm or song of David, the event which was the immediate cause for writing this powerful hymn, according to most commentators. being the plac...

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• Psalms 68:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 30:24 ; Exodus 14:25 ; Joshua 10:16 ; Joshua 10:42 ; Joshua 12:7 ; Joshua 12:8-24 ; Judges 5:19 ; Numbers 31:27 ; Numbers 31:54 ; Numbers 31:8 ; Numbers 31:9 ; Revelation 19:17-2...

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• Psalms 68:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Kings — The kings of Canaan, and other nations who came forth against the Israelites, accompanied with great and numerous armies. The spoil — There was enough, not only for those who took it, but a...

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