Psalms 80:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and comea and save us. ”

Psalms 80:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh - Ephraim and Manasseh were the two sons of Joseph, and their names were given to two of the tribes of Israel. See the notes at Psalms 78:67 . They see...
Psalms 80:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXX. Then and Now. The Messianic Hope. The Ps. depicts Judah's forlorn condition, first directly ( Psalms 80:1-7 ) and then under the figure of a vine ( Psalms 80:8-19 ). It is divided into stroph...
Psalms 80:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Before. . special various reading called Sevir (App-34) reads "For the sons of". Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton App-6), calling our attention to the...
Psalms 80:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh - It is supposed that these three tribes represent the whole, Benjamin...
Psalms 80:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Before Ephraim, &c.— That is, before all the tribes; in the face of all the people assembled at Jerusalem. These three in some sense included the whole; Benjamin being incorporated with Judah...
Psalms 80:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh - i:e., advancing at their head, as formerly thou didst advance i...
Psalms 80:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This Ps. is an appeal to God to save His people from the adversities that have come upon them, and have made them the laughing stock of their enemies ( Psalms 80:1-7 ). Their past history is recalled...
Psalms 80:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Before Ephraim... — The tribes named from Joseph’s sons and his uterine brother naturally range together; they encamped side by side on the west of the Tabernacle, and when the ark moved forward th...
Psalms 80:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 80:1-19 THIS psalm is a monument of some time of great national calamity; but its allusions do not enable us to reach certainty as to what that calamity was. Two striking features of it hav...
Psalms 80:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Turn Us Again, O God” Psalms 80:1-7 The ten tribes were in captivity, and the hearts of their brethren, still living at Jerusalem under the reign of David's line, seem to have turned with grea...
Psalms 80:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Again we have a song out of the midst of distress. There is far more light and colour about it than in the previous one. The circumstances do not seem to be any more favourable than those described b...
Psalms 80:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

These tribes, Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, are probably put for all Israel. As if the church begged that Christ's favor to his people should be as conspicuous, as the pillar of cloud had been in...
Psalms 80:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up thy strength ,.... Which Christ did in the public ministry of the word, speaking as one having authority, and not as the Scribes and Pharisees; and in...
Psalms 80:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come [and] save us. Ver. 2. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh ] These three tribes went next after the ark, when it remove...
Psalms 80:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Before Ephraim , &c. That is, before all the tribes; in the face of all the people assembled at Jerusalem. These three, indeed, in some sense included the whole, Benjamin being incorporated with...
Psalms 80:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Mournful Complaints. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim, Eduth. A psalm of Asaph. 1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israe...
Psalms 80:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. Before all the tribes of Israel; for whom he mentions only these three tribes, either, 1. Because of their special relation to Joseph here named, Psalms 80:1 ; Ephraim and Manasseh being hi...
Psalms 80:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth .” On “ Shoshannim ” see Introduction to Psalms 45 . Probably “Shoshannim—Eduth” denotes “the melody or air ‘after’ or ‘...
Psalms 80:2 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 80:1-3 . Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy st...
Psalms 80:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Though we know not the occasion on which this song was composed, yet as the tribes still inhabited the land, it probably was written on the same occasion as the preseding, and prays for the same salv...
Psalms 80:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock. The Almighty in relation to erring man I. As a shepherd ( Psalms 80:1 ). 1. His flock indicated. “Joseph” may stand for...
Psalms 80:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION A PSALM in which the writer entreats God to restore his favour once more to Israel, and especially to the ten tribes, who are in affliction, and in danger of perishing ( Psalms 80:1...
Psalms 80:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prayer for the Deliverance of the Church. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth, to be rendered in public worship according to the melody "Lilies a Testimony," a psalm of Asaph, the hymn ref...
Psalms 80:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 25:9 ; Isaiah 33:22 ; Isaiah 42:13 ; Isaiah 42:14 ; Numbers 10:22-24 ; Numbers 2:18-24 ; Psalms 35:23 ; Psalms 44:23-26 ; Psalms 78:38
Psalms 80:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Before Ephraim — Here is an allusion to the ancient situation of the tabernacle in the wilderness, where these tribes were placed on the west — side of the tabernacle, in which the ark was, which c...

Psalms 80:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 80:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 80:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 80:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 80:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 80:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 80:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 80:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 80:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 80:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 80:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 80:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 80:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 80:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 80:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 80:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 80:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 80:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 80:2 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 80:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 80:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 80:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 80:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 80:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 80:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes