Psalms 48:4

2 Samuel 10:14; 2 Samuel 10:16-19; 2 Samuel 10:6; Isaiah 10:8; Isaiah 29:5-8; Isaiah 7:1; Isaiah 8:8-10; Psalms 83:2-8; Revelation 17:12-14; Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:8; Revelation 20:9

Related Commentaries of Psalms 48:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For, lo, the kings were assembled - There is evidently allusion here to some fact that had occurred; some gathering together of kings and their a...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For, lo, the kings were (e) assembled, they passed by together. (e) They conspired and went against God's people.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

lo. Figure of speech Asterismos. the kings: i.e. the vassal kings of Sennacherib.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4 For, behold! the kings assembled Here that special deliverance of which I have spoken is touched upon. The prophet relates how, when the k...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. For, lo, the kings were assembled - Many of the neighboring potentates, at different time...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together - `they passed utterly...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Kings ] The vassal kings of Sennacherib ( Isaiah 10:8 ). They gather and march in order till they see Jerusalem. Then they are amazed, and forced to...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The kings. — With the striking picture of the advance and sudden collapse of a hostile expedition that follows, comp. Isaiah 10:28-34 ; possibly o...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

All the powers of the world were confederate against Israel, when first God made her a church. And all the powers of the world were confederate when...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For, lo, the kings were assembled ,.... As the princes of the Philistines to seek for David, when in the strong hold of Zion, 2 Samuel 5:17 ; as th...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. Ver. 4. For, lo, the kings were assembled ] The princes of the Philistines, 2 Samuel...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For lo, the kings were assembled The neighbouring princes confederate against Jerusalem: see the contents. They passed by In their march toward J...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Beauty and Strength of Zion. A song and psalm for the sons of Korah....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Either those kings confederate against Jehoshaphat, 2Ch 20 ; or the Assyrian princes, whom they vain-gloriously called kings, Isaiah 10:8 . They...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Nations Quail Before The Power of God In His Holy Hill ( Psalms 48:4-7 ). The glory of the dwellingplace of the Great God is such that the nat...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription . “ A Song and Psalm .” “It is not easy,” says Barnes, “to account for this double appellation, or to distinguish betwe...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION HERE we have another psalm of thanksgiving for a deliverance, but not apparently for the same deliverance as gave occasion for eith...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For, lo, the kings, the same enemies of Zion which are mentioned in Psalms 2, were assembled, they passed by together, in a confederacy to attack t...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The kings — Either those kings confederate against Jehoshaphat, 2 Chronicles 20:1 , or the Assyrian princes; whom they vain — gloriously called ki...

⁴ For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 48:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 48:4