“ The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan. ”
The hill of God - The phrase “the hill of God,” or the mountain of God, is elsewhere applied in the Scriptures only to Mount Horeb or Sinai Exodus 3:1 ; Exodus 18:5 ; Exo 24:13 ; 1 Kings 19...
(m) The hill of God [is as] the hill of Bashan; an high hill [as] the hill of Bashan. (m) Zion the Church of God exceeds all worldly things, not in pomp and outward show, but by the inward grace of...
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...
15. The hill of God, the hill of Bashan Here he adverts to the spring and source of all the kindness which God had shown, this being the circumstance that he had chosen mount Zion as the pla...
The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan. The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan - This and the following verse should be read thus: "Is Mount Bashan the cra...
The hill of God is, &c.— Is the hill of Bashan, is the craggy hill of Bashan, the hill of God? Psalms 68:16 . Why look you with envy, ye craggy hills? THIS IS the mountain God hath desired...
The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan. -God has chosen Zion whereon to dwell forever, with His countless chariots, in spite of all the resistance of the...
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...
The hill of God is... — Better, “Mountain of God, mount Basan; Mountain of peaks, mount Basan.” Even if the range of Hermon were not included, the basalt ( basanite, probably from the locality...
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...
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...
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...
The hill of Zion, though beautiful for situation, and the joy of the whole earth, became so for no other reason but because the Lord chose it for himself, and to place his church there. For as to the...
The hill of God [is as] the hill of Bashan ,.... The church is the hill of God, an excellent and supereminent one, and in which he dwells, as is said in Psalms 68:16 ; called an hill for its visibi...
The hill of God [is as] the hill of Bashan; an high hill [as] the hill of Bashan. Ver. 15. The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan ] Bashan was fat and fertile, but Sion was better; because the p...
The hill of God That is, Zion, the seat of God's ark; is as the hill of Bashan Equal, yea, superior to it. Bashan was a rich and fruitful mountain beyond Jordan, called by the LXX. πιον ορος, a...
Glory of Zion; The King of Zion. 15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; a high hill as the hill of Bashan. ...
The hill of God, i.e. of Zion , the seat of God's ark. As the hill of Bashan; equal to it, to wit, in height, as the next clause explains it; which yet is not to be understood of an external and...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
Deuteronomy 3:10 ; Isaiah 2:2 ; Isaiah 2:3 ; Micah 7:14 ; Psalms 2:6 ; Psalms 78:68 ; Psalms 78:69 ; Psalms 87:1 ; Psalms 87:2
The hill — Zion, the seat of God's ark. High hill — Which is not to be understood of external height, but of its spiritual height, or exaltation, in regard of the glorious privileges of God's prese...