Psalms 87:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. ”

Psalms 87:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord shall count - That is, God himself will honor those who are so born. In the previous verse, the effect of such a birth was described as securing honor from human beings. Here a higher ho...
Psalms 87:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

The LORD shall count, when he (f) writeth up the people, [that] this [man] was born there. Selah. (f) When he calls them by his word into the Church, whom he had elected and written in the book.
Psalms 87:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Psalms 87:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

writeth up . enrolleth. people . peoples. That. Instead of "That", supply "[and say] this one", &c. Selah. Connecting the last repetition of the alternation, and completing the Structu...
Psalms 87:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

6 The Lord will recount, when he writeth the peoples. The meaning is, that Zion will acquire such renown as to excite all men with the greatest earnestness to desire to be admitted into the...
Psalms 87:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people - בכתוב עמים bichthob ammim, in the register of the p...
Psalms 87:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The Lord shall count, &c.— Jehovah shall record it when he registers the nations: This man was born there. The Psalmist here describes the peculiar regard of God to the inhabitants of Jerusal...
Psalms 87:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah. The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people - rather, as Hebrew, 'the peoples.' That this...
Psalms 87:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 87:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The proud boast of the preceding verse is repeated here with allusion to the census or birth-register of citizens. (See Ezekiel 13:9 ; Isaiah 4:3 ; Psalms 69:28 , Note.) No doubt these lists were...
Psalms 87:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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-...
Psalms 87:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Psalms 87:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Psalms 87:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

As Jesus is the first-born among many brethren, so when Zion's sons are registered, Jehovah himself, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, shall record it indeed, it hath been recorded, that here was the man...
Psalms 87:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The Lord shall count when he writeth up the people ,]. Not in the Lamb's book of life for that was written from eternity, Revelation 13:8 but in the writing of the house of Israel, among the livin...
Psalms 87:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, [that] this [man] was born there. Selah. Ver. 6. The Lord shall count when he writeth up the people ] When he maketh his cease book (called t...
Psalms 87:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord, shall count, when he writeth up the people In the book of life, that register of heaven, kept by God himself, in which men's names are entered, not as born of flesh and blood, by the will...
Psalms 87:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Glory of Zion. 4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Et...
Psalms 87:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The people; or, his people . So it is only a defect of the pronoun his , which is very frequent, and easily understood out of the foregoing word, the Lord. The sense is, when God, the Maker and...
Psalms 87:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 87:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Psalms 87:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Psalms 87:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Psalms 87:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Psalms 87:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 13:9 ; Ezekiel 9:4 ; Galatians 4:26-31 ; Isaiah 4:3 ; Jeremiah 3:19 ; Luke 10:20 ; Philippians 4:3 ; Psalms 22:30 ; Revelation 13:8 ; Revelation 20:15
Psalms 87:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

When — When God, the maker and governor of this city shall take a survey of all his citizens. It is an allusion to princes or governors of cities that use to write and keep a register of all their...

Psalms 87:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 87:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 87:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 87:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 87:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 87:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 87:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 87:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 87:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 87:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 87:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 87:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 87:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 87:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 87:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 87:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 87:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 87:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 87:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 87:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 87:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 87:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 87:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 87:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 87:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 87:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes