“ Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. ”
Give the king - Supposing the psalm to have been composed by David in view of the inauguration of his son and successor, this is a prayer that God would bestow on him the qualifications which wou...
"[A Psalm] (a) for Solomon." Give the king thy (b) judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's (c) son. (a) Composed by David concerning the reign of his son Solomon. (b) Imbue the king...
Title. for Solomon. Not of, but concerning. See Epilogue by David for his son Solomon, and for his "Greater Son", the Messiah. Written after Solomon ' . second investiture, 1 Chronicles 29:23 (9...
1. O God! give thy judgments to the king. (124) While David, to whom the promise had been made, at his death affectionately recommended to God his son, who was to succeed him in his kingdom...
A Psalm for Solomon. Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. Give the king thy judgments - Let Solomon receive thy law, as the civil and ecclesiastical code b...
David praying for Solomon, sheweth the goodness and glory of his kingdom in type, and in truth of Christ's kingdom: he blesseth God. A Psalm for Solomon. Title. לשׁלמה lishlomoh, For Solo...
Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. Psalms 72:1-20 .- God grants righteousness to His king in answer to prayer; whence righteousness and peace resul...
Judgments.. righteousness ] the qualities of a great and upright ruler: see Psalms 72:2 . The king's son ] a parallel expression for the king.
The king... the king’s son. — The article is wanting in the Hebrew.
Psalms 72:1-20 RIGHTLY or wrongly, the superscription ascribes this psalm to Solomon. Its contents have led several commentators to take the superscription in a meaning for which there is no warra...
“King of Kings” Psalms 72:1-11 Solomon's reign opened as a morning without clouds. Much of the imagery of this royal ode is derived from the circumstances of his life. Compare Psalms 72:1-4 w...
This is a great psalm of the Theocracy. Incidentally the whole perfect order is revealed. God high over all enthroned, and in all actively governing. The king, appointed by God, and gaining his guida...
CONTENTS This Psalm is entitled a Psalm for Solomon; but under that title we are taught by the divine word that it is a prophecy concerning the Lord Jesus; and a greater than Solomon is here. It is...
Give the King thy judgments, O God ,.... A prayer of David, or of the church he represents, to God the Father concerning Christ; for he is "the King" meant; which is the sense of the old Jewish syna...
Psalms 72:1 «[A Psalm] for Solomon. » Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. A Psalm for Solomon ] Whom his father David had crowned while yet alive; and...
Give the king Namely, Solomon, who was now anointed king, although his father was yet living, 1 Kings 1:39 ; thy judgments Either, 1st, Thy statutes and precepts, often called God's judgments; a...
Prayer for Solomon. A psalm for Solomon. 1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king...
PSALM 72 THE ARGUMENT That this Psalm was made by David is evident from Psalms 72:20 , and that it was made with respect to Solomon is no less certain from the very title of it: and that David,...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ A Psalm for Solomon .” Margin: “Of Solomon.” Hengstenberg: “Solomon is named in the title as the author of the Psalm. Attempts have been made, to no purpose, to in...
Give the king The Psalm as a whole forms a complete vision of Messiah's kingdom so far as the Old Testament revelation extended. All David's prayers will find their fruition in the kingdom ( P...
Psalms 72:1 . Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. «Give the king thy judgments, O God.» The right to reign was transmitted by descent from David to Solo...
The Hebrew doctors have transmitted this psalm as the last that David composed. It was sung at the inauguration of Solomon to the throne, when Zadok had anointed him to be king over Israel, and when...
Give the king Thy judgments, O God, and Thy righteousness unto the king’s son. The world-wanted king Society cannot exist without laws: these laws require to be expressed and enforced, and whoe...
EXPOSITION THE "title" attributes this psalm to Solomon, and the contents of the psalm are very favourable to his authorship. The prayer in Psalms 72:1-19 is an echo of that recorded in 1 K...
Give the King Thy judgments, O God, and Thy righteousness unto the King's Son. The Messiah is King and the Son of a King. To Him God gives, equips Him with, His righteousness, with His judgments. Eve...
1 Chronicles 22:12 ; 1 Chronicles 22:13 ; 1 Chronicles 29:19 ; 1 Kings 1:39-53 ; 1 Kings 1:47 ; 1 Kings 1:48 ; 1 Kings 2:1-4 ; 2 Chronicles 1:10 ; Hebrews 1:8 ; Hebrews 1:9 ; Isaiah 11:2 ;...
Judgments — He saith judgments in the plural number, because though the office of judging and ruling was but one, yet there were divers parts and branches, of it; in all which he begs that Solomon...