2 Chronicles 6:6; Deuteronomy 12:5; Isaiah 14:32; Joel 2:32; Psalms 78:67-6
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; wher...
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 J...
The LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. Zion. See App-68. Jacob. Israel viewed in connection with the natural seed, and with material blessings....
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 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...
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 Jaco...
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 (...
Zion ] Jerusalem. The dwellings of Jacob ] other cities of Judah.
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...
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...
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 c...
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 pra...
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion ,.... Which the Targum interprets of the schools, as preferable to the synagogues: the Lord loves Zion herself; th...
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 move...
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 Jerus...
The Glory of Zion. A psalm or song for the sons of Korah. 1 His...
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,...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ A Psalm of Song for the sons of Korah .” It so far combines the properties of a religious Psalm and a patriotic...
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, t...
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 sp...
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. The gates of Zion I. God has always shown a particular respect to house...
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 C...
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...
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, of the Temple situated on that mountain, as the emblem of His Church on earth, more than all the dwellings of Jac...
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...
2 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.