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Psalms 122:3
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together, built up without gaps and unsightly open spaces, one house next to the other, presenting a solid community,
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together, built up without gaps and unsightly open spaces, one house next to the other, presenting a solid community,
Verse Psalms 122:3. _JERUSALEM - COMPACT TOGETHER._] It is now well rebuilt, every part contributing to the strength of the whole. It is also a state of great political and spiritual union. It is the...
JERUSALEM IS BUILDED AS A CITY THAT IS COMPACT TOGETHER - literally, “joined to itself together;” that is, when one part is, as it were, bound closely to another part; not scattered or separate. The w...
PSALM 120-134 The Psalms of Degrees Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents. They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem three times a year to celebrat...
CXXII. THE GLORY OF THE TEMPLE. Psalms 122:3. The Psalmist refers probably to the ideal Jerusalem. Every true Jew was in sentiment a loyal burgher of Jerusalem. Jerusalem was like Mecca to the Mohamm...
JERUSALEM IS BUILDED AS A CITY THAT IS COMPACT— The verb חבר _chaber,_ denotes the connection or joining of things aptly and closely to each other. Thus it is used of the coupling of the curtains of t...
PSALMS 122 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Tribes Welcomed to the Passover. ANALYSIS (See Inserted Headlines.) (Lm.) Song of the StepsBy David[737] [737] Some cod. (w. Aram., Sep., Vul.) omit: By DavidGn....
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: JERUSALEM IS BUILDED AS A CITY THAT IS COMPACT TOGETHER - the admiring language of the pilgrims. The article in the Hebrew favours the trans...
The writer recalls a journey to Jerusalem and the many sacred memories associated with that much-loved city....
JERUSALEM IS BUILDED] RV 'Jerusalem that art built.' COMPACT] descriptive of the appearance of the rebuilt city, with the breaches restored and the walls complete, after the return from exile....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ PSALMS 122 PSALMS FOR CLIMBING; PSALMS 120:134 Jesus said, "We wi
This verse is somewhat perplexing. It is explained to refer either _to_ the rebuilding of the city and reuniting of the parts which had been disconnected in the destruction, or, which is far better (s...
יְרוּשָׁלִַ֥ם הַ בְּנוּיָ֑ה כְּ֝ עִ֗יר שֶׁ חֻ
Psalms 122:1 THIS is very distinctly a pilgrim psalm. But there is difficulty in determining the singer's precise point of view, arising from the possibility of understanding the phrase in Psalms 122:...
JOY IN GOD'S HOUSE Psalms 122:1 As in the other psalms of the series there is here alternation between soloist and choir. In Psalms 122:1 the _soloist_ rejoices in the proposal made to go on a pilgri...
This is the song of the pilgrims in anticipation of Jerusalem and the house of worship. It sets forth the glory of the establishment and compacted city where the tribes gather to give thanks to Jehova...
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is (c) compact together: (c) By the artificial joining and beauty of the houses, he means the peace and love that was between the citizens....
It is pleasant to observe how the Old Testament saints delighted themselves in dwelling upon the praise of their beloved Jerusalem. Beautiful for situation (saith one of them) the joy of the whole ear...
3._Jerusalem is built as a city. _Here David begins to celebrate the praises of Jerusalem_; _and he does this with the design of encouraging the people to persevere with uniform steadfastness in their...
Psalms 122 celebrates Jerusalem. The saint is glad to go there. The tribes go there; the thrones of judgment, of the house of David, are there. His brethren and companions and the house of Jehovah, th...
JERUSALEM IS BUILDED AS A CITY THAT IS COMPACT TOGETHER. In David's time the upper and lower city were joined together, the streets regularly built, the houses contiguous, not straggling about, here a...
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Ver. 3. _Jerusalem is builded as a city, &c._] None such for uniformity of buildings or unanimity of citizens. There is no such oneness in all...
_Jerusalem is builded as a city, compact together_ Hebrew, שׁחברה לה, _shechubberah lah, quæ conjuncta est sibi, which is united_, or, _compacted to_, or, _in itself._ The word signifies “the connecti...
1-5 The pleasure and profit from means of grace, should make us disregard trouble and fatigue in going to them; and we should quicken one another to what is good. We should desire our Christian frien...
Partly in its buildings, which are not dispersed, as they are in villages, nor divided into two cities, as it was before, but united and enlarged, 1 CHRONICLES 11:7,8; and principally in its governmen...
Psalms 122:3 Jerusalem H3389 built H1129 (H8803) city H5892 compact H2266 (H8795) together H3162 builded -...
Psalms 122:1. _I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD._ I was glad for their sake, glad to think they were so willing to go. I was glad also for my own sake, for I wa...
We will read two portions of Scripture relating to public worship; the first will be Psalms 122:1 , one of David's «Songs of degrees.» (See Luke 18:1 for second portion.) Psalms 122:1. I was glad whe...
CONTENTS: Prayer for the welfare of Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: When peace comes to Jerusalem there will be peace for all the world, therefore the saints should earnestly pray for...
Psalms 122:4. _The tribes go up,_ because they found all the testimonials of the covenant there; and because the thrones of David's house would decide their causes with equity. Therefore this psalm co...
_I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord._ A PIOUS PATRIOT I. Rejoicing in the opportunity for assembling for public worship (verses 1, 2). 1. One of the grandest so...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 122:1. This psalm celebrates Zion as God’s chosen city (compare Psalms 46:1;...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 122:3 The singer looks around Jerusalem. BOUND FIRMLY TOGETHER probably compares the physical coziness of the city to the sense of unity the pilgrim expects to find there....
INTRODUCTION This Psalm, which the title ascribes to David, was probably composed by him after he had settled the Ark in Mount Zion, to encourage the people to resort to Jerusalem to the three annual...
EXPOSITION THE "title" assigns this psalm to David; and there seems to be no sufficient reason why his authorship should not be accepted. The description of Jerusalem exactly suits his day (Psalms 122...
Psa 122:1-9 continues. The idea is I'm traveling now towards Jerusalem. I'm with probably a company of fifty, a hundred people. They always got together for these trips to Jerusalem. That is why, actu...
2 Samuel 5:9; Ephesians 2:20; Ephesians 2:21; Ephesians 4:4;...