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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Psalms 47:4

Houses. Hebrew, "palaces;" Septuagint, "towers." Greek: Baresi, a word which has again been mistaken for gravibus or gradibus, as [in] ver. 14., and Psalm xliv. 9. God is the defence of his people, (Proverbs xviii. 10.) the Church, Matthew xvi. 18. (Calmet) --- All particular houses, or churches, must come to the unity of faith, (Worthington) and to the seat of Peter. (St. Irenæus iii.)

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HE SHALL CHOOSE OUR INHERITANCE FOR US - He has chosen or selected the land which we inherit. Of all the countries which compose the world, he has chosen “this” to be the inheritance of his own people...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 47 He is King Over All the Earth _ 1. In the midst of His people (Psalms 47:1)_ 2. The praise of His delivered people (Psalms 47:6) And now we see prophetically how the redeemed people clap...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XLVII. JOY OF ALL MANKIND IN YAHWEH. All nations are invited to rejoice in Yahweh's exaltation. It seems strange that they should be expected to rejoice in their own defeat; but this is explained by t...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SHALL CHOOSE. chooseth: referring to Israel's inheritance. Repeat this verb at the beginning of the next line. SELAH. Connecting the consideration of what God had done for Hezekiah and Zion and the ex...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A summons to all nations to acknowledge Jehovah as their King. He has proved His sovereignty by subjecting the nations to His own people and assigning to it the choicest land for its inheritance....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    It is difficult to decide what is the exact force of the tenses in these verses. The most probable rendering (see Driver's _Tenses_, §§ 83 f., 173) appears to be either (1). He subdued the peoples und...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HE SHALL CHOOSE OUR INHERITANCE— "He shall make us to dwell safely in this good land of Canaan, which he hath given us; and which is a type of that heavenly country, to which both Jews and Gentiles sh...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 47 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Israel Invites the Nations to Rejoice in the Universal Kingship of Her God. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 47:1-2, The Invitation Itself, announcing the Central Fact of Jeho...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _HE SHALL CHOOSE OUR INHERITANCE FOR US, THE EXCELLENCY OF JACOB WHOM HE LOVED. SELAH._ He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob, whom he loved - i:e., He shall choose it anew...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This Ps., though akin to Psalms 46, 48, is less definitely historical, and simply summons the earth to join in a chorus of praise to God as the victorious King, not only of Israel, but of all the nati...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE EXCELLENCY (or 'pride') OF JACOB] the fair land of Israel....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE EXCELLENCY OF JACOB. — This phrase, which literally means _the loftiness of Jacob,_ is used in Nahum 2:2 of the national glory, in Ezekiel 24:21 of the Temple, but in Amos 6:8 has a bad sense, “th...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SHALL SUBDUE... SHALL CHOOSE. — Rather, _subdues, chooses,_ indicating a continued manifestation of the Divine favour....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 47:5]_ יִבְחַר ־לָ֥נוּ אֶת ־נַחֲלָתֵ֑נוּ אֶ֥ת...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 47:1 THE closing thought of Psalms 46:1 is nobly expanded in this jubilant summons to all nations to praise Jehovah as their King. Both psalms have a similar, and probably the same, historical...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “KING OVER ALL THE EARTH” Psalms 47:1 This psalm may have been sung in the valley of Berachah, where Jehoshaphat celebrated his victory over the Moabites. See 2 Chronicles 20:1. When some great deliv...

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

    This is a song of the sovereignty of God. In the Hebrew ceremonial it was pre-eminently the song of the New Year, being repeated seven times ere the sounding of the trumpets which announce the feast....

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    He shall choose (c) our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. (c) God has chosen us above all other nations, to enjoy a most glorious inheritance....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Two most glorious and comprehensive blessings are assigned for this great joy; the one is a risen and exalted Saviour, who will subdue all his and our foes; and the other is, he will prepare us a plac...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    4._He hath chosen our inheritance for us. _The inspired poet here celebrates more distinctly the special grace which God, in his goodness, had bestowed upon the chosen and holy seed of Abraham. As he...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 47 only pursues this deliverance to its bright results for Israel according to God's glory in the earth. Jehovah is now a great King over all the earth (compare Zechariah 14). He subdues the na...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HE SHALL CHOOSE OUR INHERITANCE FOR US,.... Either a portion in this life; God knows what is best for his people, and therefore they should leave it with him, who can make a better choice for them tha...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. Ver. 4. _He shall choose our inheritance for us_] Or, He hath chosen. Of his free grace he espied out the land of...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He shall choose our inheritance for us_ The Syriac, Arabic, and Latin, render the word יבחר, _jibchar_, here used, in the past time, _he hath chosen_, which, if understood of God's choosing Canaan fo...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE MESSIAH IN THE GLORY OF HIS EXALTATION. To the chief musician, a psalm for the sons of Korah, written by one of their number at the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, as a prophecy of the victory and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    He shall choose our inheritance for us, the blessings imparted to His children by the manifestation of His grace, THE EXCELLENCY OF JACOB WHOM HE LOVED, the pride and glory of His Church, the bliss an...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-4 The God with whom we have to do, is a God of awful majesty. The universal and absolute sovereignty of a holy God would be too terrible for us even to think of, were it not exercised by his Son fr...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HE SHALL CHOOSE, i.e. he will appoint and bestow upon us. This verb of the future tense may seem to agree well with the Gentiles, because this blessing was not now present, but future, and so the sens...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 47:4 choose H977 (H8799) inheritance H5159 excellence H1347 Jacob H3290 loves H157 (H8804) Selah H5542...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE NATIONS ARE CALLED ON TO SALUTE YHWH MOST HIGH AS THE GREAT KING OVER ALL THE EARTH WHO HAS ESTABLISHED HIS PEOPLE IN THE CHOICEST OF LANDS (PSALMS 47:1). . Psalms 47:1 Oh clap your hands, all y...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 47:4 There is ineffable music in these words, but it is late in life before we are able to hear it so as to understand it; it is late in life before we are able to turn these words into a hymn...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 47:1. _O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. He shall subdue the people under us...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 47:1. O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great king over all the earth. He shall subdue the people under us,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The people exhorted to shout over God's triumphs. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Let all who know God and own His sceptre sing His praises forever; for while we dwell under the sha...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This is the song which the sons of Korah sung before the ark, when it was removed from the city of David to its place in the temple. 2 Chronicles 7 2 Chronicles 7. The ark being a type of Christ, it f...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O clap your hands, all ye people._ MESSIANIC TRIUMPH PREDICTED The psalmist looked far ahead. His immediate experience was as “a little window through which he saw great matters.” The prophecy of th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _He shall choose our inheritance for us: the excellency of Jacob whom He loved._ HE SHALL CHOOSE OUR INHERITANCE FOR US How fond our children are, and the younger they are the more so, of saying, “I...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 47:1. This psalm celebrates God’s rule over all the earth (see note on 5:2). The promises to Abraham (Psalms

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“To the Chief Musician, a psalm for the sons of Korah.” See Introduction to Psalms 42. The author of the psalm, and the occasion on which it was composed, are alike unk...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS is a song of praise to God, as the King of the whole earth. It has been called "one of the _accession _psalms," because it depicts God as assuming his kingdom, and taking his seat upon...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Psa 47:1-9 is a psalm for the New Year. This psalm is read seven times before the blowing of the trumpet to announce the holy day, the beginning of the Jewish New Year. O clap your hands, all ye peopl...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 3:22; 1 Corinthians 3:23; 1 John 4:10; 1 John 4:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Chuse — He will appoint and bestow upon us. Inheritance — The presence and worship, and blessing of God. This God had chosen for the Israelites and resolved to chuse or set apart for the Gentiles. Of...

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