Isaiah 33:18-20; Matthew 24:1; Matthew 24:2; Nehemiah 12:31-40
Walk about Zion - This is a call on all persons to go round the city; to take a survey of it; to see how beautiful and how strong it was - how it...
(l) Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. (l) For in this outward defence and strength God's blessings also appeared, bu...
XLVIII. A Psalm which Describes the Impression made on a Pilgrim by his Visit to Zion. Psalms 48:1 f. Praise of Zion. sides of the north is ha...
Walk about. They were now free to do this. towers. Many discovered on the east side of Ophel in recent excavations.
12 and 13 Encompass Zion, etc. Here the prophet again commends the situation and beauty of Jerusalem, intimating that the city was strongly...
DISCOURSE: 581 THE CHURCH’S SECURITY IN GOD Psalms 48:12-14 . Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof: mark ye well her...
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Walk about Zion - Consider the beauty and magnificence of the temple, count the tow...
Let mount Zion rejoice, &c.— Dr. Delaney thinks that these verses allude to the great improvements made at Jerusalem, the temple on mount Moria...
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Tell the towers thereof - number them, to see that not one is wanting, and...
This Ps. celebrates the safety and glory of Jerusalem, and the praise of her divine King. The deliverance He has wrought is vividly portrayed, and we...
Walk about Zion. — Notice here the strong patriotic feeling of Hebrew song. The inhabitants of the city are invited to make a tour of inspection of...
Psalms 48:1-14 THE situation seems the same as in Psalms 46:1-11 , with which this psalm has many points of contact. In both we have the same tri...
“The City of Our God” Psalms 48:1-14 This psalm also probably dates from 2 Chronicles 20:20 . Tekoa was only three hours' march from Jerusalem...
In Psa 46:1-11 the dominant note was of confidence, because of the government of God in the midst of His people. This is a song describing the experi...
Strangers are challenged to see if they can discover any tokens like ruin, or want, or misery. No! Zion still flourisheth, and must flourish, and be...
Walk about Zion, and go round about her ,.... These words are either an address to the enemies of the church, sarcastically delivered; calling upon...
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Ver. 12. Walk about Sion, and tell the towers thereof ] q.d. Are they not stil...
Walk about Zion , &c. He speaks probably to the people of the city and kingdom, who had been eye-witnesses of the glorious work God had wrought...
God's Care of His Church. 8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the...
He speaketh, either, 1. To the enemies, as triumphing over them. Or rather, 2. To the people of that city and kingdom, who had been eye-witnesses...
The Triumphant Inspection ( Psalms 48:12-14 ). This may well originally have indicated a celebratory inspection of the walls carried out in triump...
INTRODUCTION Superscription . “ A Song and Psalm .” “It is not easy,” says Barnes, “to account for this double appellation, or to distinguish betwe...
Psalms 48 There is one event, and only one, in Jewish history which corresponds point for point to the details of this Psalm the crushing destruct...
Psalms 48:11-13 I. There are times when heart and brain fail and are weary beneath the weight of the years that have been and the thought of those...
Psalms 48:1-3 . Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the...
A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. It is not every Psalm that is a song, for some Psalms are full of sorrow and it is not every song that is a P...
Title. A psalm for the sons of Korah. Asaph being dead, and his sons not named, we infer that the psalm, as many think, was composed on the Assyria...
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. A song of deliverance The psalm has manifestly some historical basis. What is it? The psalm gives...
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of Hosts, in the city of our God. “As we have heard, so have we seen” This is seldom...
Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. The love of Zion So they revered the city on the hill. Their affections clust...
EXPOSITION HERE we have another psalm of thanksgiving for a deliverance, but not apparently for the same deliverance as gave occasion for eith...
Zion as a Type of the Christian Church. A song and psalm for the sons of Korah, written by one of their number to set forth the privileges and ble...
Walk about Zion, taking the opportunity of examining the Church closely, both in its appearance and in its work, and go round about her; tell the to...
Tell — He bids them mark well her towers, bulwarks, and palaces, with thankfulness to God, when they should find upon enquiry, that not one of them...
12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.