“ The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. ”
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion - Compare Psalms 78:68 . The gates of a city were the places of concourse; where business was transacted; where courts were held. The particular allusion here s...
LXXXVII. Zion the Mother of all Yahweh's People. When this Ps. was written, the Jews were scattered everywhere in the known world. But every true Jew recognised Jerusalem as his mother city. The gl...
The LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. Zion. See App-68. Jacob. Israel viewed in connection with the natural seed, and with material blessings. See notes on Genesis 32:28 ; Genesis 43:6 ; Gen...
2 Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion above all the dwellings of Jacob. Here we are taught that all the excellence of the holy city depended on the free choice which God had made of it. With th...
The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob - That is, he preferred Zion for his habitation, to be t...
The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob - ( Psalms 78:68 ). "The gates" are specified be...
This Ps. expands the thought of Psalms 86:9 . Zion is the chosen dwelling of God ( Psalms 87:1-3 ), the spiritual birthplace of the other nations ( Psalms 87:4-6 ), and the source of joy to them all...
Psalms 87:1-7 ONE clear note sounds in this remarkable psalm. Its single theme is the incorporation of ancestral foes and distant nations with the people of God. Aliens are to be enrolled as home-...
Citizens of Zion Psalms 87:1-7 This psalm blends in one great congregation the ancient foes of Israel and the Chosen People. It is a vision of the Holy Universal Church. The Selahs divide it...
This is a prophecy. The singer is looking on. The order of the earthly realisation of the Kingdom of God is seen as established. First, the city is contemplated at the centre of everything, with Jeho...
Read with reference to Christ, this verse is most beautiful; for it is in Christ the Lord visiteth and rejoiceth in his people. Lovely as Jacob's praying seed are, yet they are so only in Jesus. The...
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion ,.... Which the Targum interprets of the schools, as preferable to the synagogues: the Lord loves Zion herself; that is, the church, and therefore has chosen it for...
The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Ver. 2. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion ] Nothing but his mere love moved him to make choice of it, above all other places...
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion That is, the city of Zion, or Jerusalem, gates being often put for cities. He saith Zion rather than Jerusalem , to intimate that he loved Jerusalem for Zio...
The Glory of Zion. A psalm or song for the sons of Korah. 1 His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2 The L O...
The gates, i.e. the city gates, being oft put for cities, as Deuteronomy 15:7 , Deuteronomy 16:5 Psalms 9:14 . Of Zion; largely so called, as was now said, to wit, of Jerusalem, which was b...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ A Psalm of Song for the sons of Korah .” It so far combines the properties of a religious Psalm and a patriotic song that either of the names may with propriety...
Psalms 87:1 . His foundation is in the holy mountains. The hills of Zion and Moriah were both holy. The exordium is bold and abrupt. Mystically, the spiritual Zion, built on the foundation of the...
His foundation is in the holy mountains. A material portrait of the spiritual Church I. It is glorious in its elevation ( Psalms 87:1 ). The spiritual Church is a city set upon a hill. Though e...
EXPOSITION THIS short psalm, opening with the praise of Zion, or of the Jewish Church ( Psalms 87:1-19 ), passes into a glorification of the Church universal, when all the nations have come in...
The Church of God the Spiritual Birthplace of the Nations. A psalm or song for the sons of Korah, a triumphal hymn in the strain of these inspired singers, celebrating the glory of the Church as t...
2 Chronicles 6:6 ; Deuteronomy 12:5 ; Isaiah 14:32 ; Joel 2:32 ; Psalms 78:67-6
Zion — That is, Zion itself, or Jerusalem, which was built upon and near mount Zion. He saith Zion rather than Jerusalem, to intimate that he loved Jerusalem for Zion's sake, or for the temple, whi...