Psalms 45:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The daughter of Tyre, i.e. the people or citizens of Tyre; as the daughter of Zion, or Jerusalem, or Babel, &c., are put for their inhabitants, 2 Kings 19:21 Psalms 137:8 Malachi 9:9. He mentioneth the Tyrians, partly because they did give presents to Solomon, 1 Kings 5:1, &c., to whom here is a continued allusion through the whole Psalm; and partly because they among others, and before many others, were to be converted to Christ, as they were. See Matthew 11:21,22 Mr 3:8 7:24 Acts 21:3-5. But they are here put synecdochically for all the Gentiles, whom that city fitly represents, as being the mart of the nations, as she is called, Isaiah 23:3. And being a very rich and proud, and therefore a self-conceited and a stiffnecked people, their merchants being princes, Isaiah 23:8 they may in a particular manner represent all those great and proud princes and stubborn people of the Gentile world, which should be subdued to Christ by the preaching of the gospel. With a gift; partly to testify their homage, which was done by gifts or presents, as appears from 1 Samuel 10:27 2 Samuel 8:2, &c.; and partly to procure thine, and consequently thy husband s, favour, as it here follows. The rich among the people of other nations.