Psalms 80:2

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh - It is supposed that these three tribes represent the whole, Benjamin being incorporated with Judah, Manasseh comprehending the country beyond Jordan, and Ephraim all the rest - Dodd.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 80:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh - Ephraim and Manasseh were the two sons of Joseph, and their names were given to two of the tribes of...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXX. Then and Now. The Messianic Hope. The Ps. depicts Judah's forlorn condition, first directly ( Psalms 80:1-7 ) and then under the figure of a...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Before. . special various reading called Sevir (App-34) reads "For the sons of". Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh. Note the Figure of speech...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Before Ephraim, &c.— That is, before all the tribes; in the face of all the people assembled at Jerusalem. These three in some sense included t...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh - i:e., advanci...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This Ps. is an appeal to God to save His people from the adversities that have come upon them, and have made them the laughing stock of their enemies...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ephraim.. Ben jamin.. Manasseh ] These three tribes were the descendants of Rachel. They encamped together in the wilderness, and followed immediate...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Before Ephraim... — The tribes named from Joseph’s sons and his uterine brother naturally range together; they encamped side by side on the west of...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 80:1-19 THIS psalm is a monument of some time of great national calamity; but its allusions do not enable us to reach certainty as to what...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Turn Us Again, O God” Psalms 80:1-7 The ten tribes were in captivity, and the hearts of their brethren, still living at Jerusalem under the re...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Again we have a song out of the midst of distress. There is far more light and colour about it than in the previous one. The circumstances do not see...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

These tribes, Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, are probably put for all Israel. As if the church begged that Christ's favor to his people should be a...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up thy strength ,.... Which Christ did in the public ministry of the word, speaking as one having autho...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come [and] save us. Ver. 2. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh ] These th...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Before Ephraim , &c. That is, before all the tribes; in the face of all the people assembled at Jerusalem. These three, indeed, in some sense in...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Mournful Complaints. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim, Eduth. A psalm...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. Before all the tribes of Israel; for whom he mentions only these three tribes, either, 1. Because of their special relation to Joseph here nam...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth .” On “ Shoshannim ” see Introduction to Psalms 45 . Probably “Shoshan...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 80:1-3 . Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. Befor...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Though we know not the occasion on which this song was composed, yet as the tribes still inhabited the land, it probably was written on the same occa...
The Biblical Illustrator

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock. The Almighty in relation to erring man I. As a shepherd ( Psalms 80:1 )....
The Biblical Illustrator

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up Thy strength, and come and save us. For understanding of this verse we must remember that, when t...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION A PSALM in which the writer entreats God to restore his favour once more to Israel, and especially to the ten tribes, who are in af...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prayer for the Deliverance of the Church. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth, to be rendered in public worship according to the melody "L...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, these three tribes, associated also Numbers 2:18-24 , being named as representatives of Israel, in marchin...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 25:9 ; Isaiah 33:22 ; Isaiah 42:13 ; Isaiah 42:14 ; Numbers 10:22-24 ; Numbers 2:18-24 ; Psalms 35:23 ; Psalms 44:23-26 ; Psalms 78:3...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Before Ephraim — Here is an allusion to the ancient situation of the tabernacle in the wilderness, where these tribes were placed on the west — sid...

² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and comea and save us.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 80:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Coke's Commentary on the Holy 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

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 80:2