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Psalms 68:15
The hill of God, the abode of His Church, is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill, a mount full of peaks, as the hill of Bashan.
The hill of God, the abode of His Church, is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill, a mount full of peaks, as the hill of Bashan.
Verse Psalms 68:15. _THE HILL OF GOD_ IS AS _THE HILL OF BASHAN_] This and the following verse should be read thus: "Is Mount Bashan the craggy mount, Mount Bashan, the mount of God? Why envy ye, ye...
THE HILL OF GOD - The phrase “the hill of God,” or the mountain of God, is elsewhere applied in the Scriptures only to Mount Horeb or Sinai Exodus 3:1; Exodus 18:5; Exo 24:13; 1 King
Psalms 68 The Great Redemption Accomplished _ 1. The introduction (Psalms 68:1)_ 2. The proclamation of His Name and of ‘His acts (Psalms 68:4) 3. A historic review ...
LXVIII. A SONG OF TRIUMPH. The most difficult of all the Pss. In some places the text is so corrupt that it defies any attempt at emendation, and the VSS give little, if any, help. The historical allu...
After this general introduction the Psalmist proceeds to review the past history of Israel in proof of God's victorious power and of His gracious love towards His people....
A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan: An high-peaked mountain is the mountain of Bashan. Mount Hermon is probably meant, rather than the mountains of Bashan generally. It is the grandest of t...
After the conquest of the land, God chose for His abode not the stately mountains of Bashan, whose natural preeminence might seem to mark them out for that privilege, but the insignificant hill of Zio...
THE HILL OF GOD IS, &C.— _Is the hill of Bashan, is the craggy hill of Bashan, the hill of God?_ Psalms 68:16. _Why look you with envy, ye craggy hills? THIS IS the mountain God hath desired to dwell...
PSALMS 68 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Glimpses of Jehovah's Visible Reign over Israel and the Nations. ANALYSIS (See Headlines insetted in text.) (Lm.) By DavidPsalm Song. (DIVISION ITHE KING: HIS PROWESS...
_THE HILL OF GOD IS AS THE HILL OF BASHAN; AN HIGH HILL AS THE HILL OF BASHAN._ -God has chosen Zion whereon to dwell forever, with His countless chariots, in spite of all the resistance of the pagan...
68:15 God, (o-8) Or 'A mount of God is mount Bashan.'...
RV 'A mountain of God' (i.e. a great mountain: see Psalms 36:6), 'is the mountain of Bashan; an high mountain is the mountain of Bashan.' Hermon, which bounds Bashan on the N., is probably meant. Thou...
This is one of the grandest of the Pss., but its origin and date are involved in much obscurity. It contains expressions borrowed from the Blessing of Moses (Deuteronomy 33) and the Song of Deborah (J...
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...
THE HILL OF GOD IS... — Better, “Mountain of God, mount Basan; Mountain of peaks, mount Basan.” Even if the range of Hermon were not included, the _basalt_ (_basanite,_ probably from the locality) ra...
(15-18) A third retrospect follows — the third scene in the sacred drama of Israel’s early fortunes. It sets forth the glory of God’s chosen mountain. A finer passage could hardly be found. The toweri...
_[Psalms 68:16]_ הַר ־אֱ֭לֹהִים הַר ־בָּשָׁ֑ן הַ֥ר...
Psalms 68:1 THIS superb hymn is unsurpassed, if not unequalled, in grandeur, lyric fire, and sustained rush of triumphant praise. It celebrates a victory; but it is the victory of the God who enters a...
THEIR MIGHTY DELIVERER Psalms 68:12 The processional march still continues. Presently Mount Zion comes in sight, and the neighboring hills are depicted as eying it enviously for its selection in pref...
This psalm sings the praise of the God of deliverances. It opens with a song of pure praise (verses Psa 68:1-6). This is then justified by a review of God's past dealings with His people (verses Psa 6...
(m) The hill of God [is as] the hill of Bashan; an high hill [as] the hill of Bashan. (m) Zion the Church of God exceeds all worldly things, not in pomp and outward show, but by the inward grace of G...
_Waters. Beneath which the Hebrews supposed hell was placed, Job xxvi. 5. (St. Hilary v. 39.) --- He prays to be delivered from misery, (ver. 2.) and for a glorious resurrection. (Calmet) --- Christ c...
The hill of Zion, though beautiful for situation, and the joy of the whole earth, became so for no other reason but because the Lord chose it for himself, and to place his church there. For as to the...
15._The hill of God, the hill of Bashan _Here he adverts to the spring and source of all the kindness which God had shown, this being the circumstance that he had chosen mount Zion as the place of his...
Psalms 68 follows on these psalms, being the celebration of the introduction of Israel into the position spoken of in them. Still it has a complete and individual character of its own. It begins with...
THE HILL OF GOD [IS AS] THE HILL OF BASHAN,.... The church is the hill of God, an excellent and supereminent one, and in which he dwells, as is said in Psalms 68:16; called an hill for its visibility,...
The hill of God [is as] the hill of Bashan; an high hill [as] the hill of Bashan. Ver. 15. _The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan_] Bashan was fat and fertile, but Sion was better; because the pla...
_The hill of God_ That is, Zion, the seat of God's ark; _is as the hill of Bashan_ Equal, yea, superior to it. Bashan was a rich and fruitful mountain beyond Jordan, called by the LXX. πιον ορος, a _f...
15-21 The ascension of Christ must here be meant, and thereto it is applied, Ephesians 4:8. He received as the purchase of his death, the gifts needful for the conversion of sinners, and the salvatio...
THE HILL OF GOD, i.e. _of Zion_, the seat of God's ark. AS THE HILL OF BASHAN; equal to it, to wit, in height, as the next clause explains it; which yet is not to be understood of an external and visi...
Psalms 68:15 mountain H2022 God H430 mountain H2022 Bashan H1316 mountain H2022 peaks H1386 mountain H2022 Bashan H1316
This was a Psalm sung, at the removing of the ark, when it was taken up to its resting-place on Mount Zion. All the tribes were gathered together, and, in full pomp, they marched along, bearing the sa...
CONTENTS: Prayer against enemies and for God's people. All called upon to praise God for His greatness and goodness. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The glory of Zion's King is that He is a Savi...
This psalm is the _Carmen seculare_ of the Hebrews, and far surpasses the _Te Deum_ of the christians. It has justly been eulogized in the whole succession of theological composition,. The song bursts...
_O God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, when Thou didst march through the wilderness._ THE PROGRESS OF HUMANITY I. It commences with the Divinely terrible (Psalms 68:7). As a rule, if not...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 68:1. This is a celebration of God’s continued care and protection. It remembers how God led his people through the wilderness into their inheritance. The celebration does n...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 68:15 The ark’s destination is the “sanctuary” on Mount Zion, the MOUNTAIN OF GOD. ⇐...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_A Psalm or Song of David_.” See Introduction to Psalms 48. The Superscription does not mention the occasion...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is one of triumphant praise and jubilation, the crown and gem of the Second Book. Professor Cheyne calls it "a patriotic and religious ode of wondrous range and compass, and in t...
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the pre...
Deuteronomy 3:10; Isaiah 2:2; Isaiah 2:3; Micah 7:14; Psalms 2:6;...
The hill — Zion, the seat of God's ark. High hill — Which is not to be understood of external height, but of its spiritual height, or exaltation, in regard of the glorious privileges of God's presence...