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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Psalms 47:7

The King of all the earth; not only ours, as I now said, but also of all the nations of the world; and therefore he may well require, and doth highly deserve, all our praises. With understanding; not rashly, or formally and carelessly, but seriously, considering the greatness of this King whom you praise, and what abundant cause you have to praise and admire him; which is an intimation that the matter of this Psalm is more sublime and important than ordinary.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 47:7. _FOR GOD_ IS _THE KING OF ALL THE EARTH_] He is not _your_ King only, but the King of the _universe_. He has no _limited power_, no _confined_ dominion. _SING YE PRAISES WITH UNDE...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR GOD IS THE KING OF ALL THE EARTH - He has shown himself to be a universal sovereign. All nations are subject to him, and he has a claim to universal praise. SING YE PRAISES WITH UNDERSTANDING - Ma...

  • 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

    OF. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "over", as in Psalms 47:8. WITH UNDERSTANDING. Compare Psalms 49:3 and 1 Corinthians 14:15;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A renewed summons to celebrate Jehovah's sovereignty....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _with understanding_ So the LXX, Vulg., and Jer. But better as R.V. marg., in a skilful psalm, Heb. _Maschil_. See _Introd_. p. xix....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 580 THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST AN OCCASION FOR JOY Psalms 47:5. _God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our Ki...

  • 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

    _FOR GOD IS THE KING OF ALL THE EARTH: SING YE PRAISES WITH UNDERSTANDING._ For God is the King of all the earth - and shall be manifested as such after His final interposition for Israel (Zechariah...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    47:7 understanding. (d-13) Or 'for instruction.'...

  • 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

    WITH UNDERSTANDING] RM 'in a skilful psalm (Maschil).'...

  • 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

    WITH UNDERSTANDING. — Rather, _play a fine tune._ (See title Psalms 32) Or perhaps as LXX., and Vulg. adverbially, _play with skill. _...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 47:8]_ כִּ֤י מֶ֖לֶךְ כָּל ־הָ אָ֥רֶץ...

  • 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

    For God [is] the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with (e) understanding. (e) He requires that understanding be joined with singing, lest the Name of God be profaned with vain crying....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _There, denotes the promptitude of vengeance, as well as the following allusion, Isaias xiii. 8., and 1 Thessalonians v. 3._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This, if confined literally to the carrying up of the ark, would not be strictly true; for though there were shootings and the sound of the trumpet at that festival, yet God himself could not be said...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _‘WORSHIP THE KING!’_ ‘God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.’ Psalms 47:7 I. THE CHARACTERISTIC OF UNITED RATHER THAN OF PERSONAL EXPRESSION OF FEELING BELONGS TO TH...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._For God is King of all the earth _The Psalmist, having called God in the close of the preceding verse _King _of the chosen people, now calls him _King of all the earth; _and thus, while he claims t...

  • 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

    FOR GOD [IS] THE KING OF ALL THE EARTH,.... Or "the king of all the earth [is] God" e; the same that is ascended into heaven, and is King of saints, even Christ Jesus; and so he will appear to be, esp...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For God [is] the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding. Ver. 7. _For God is King of all the earth_] _q.d._ Our King, said I? it is too little; he is King of all the earth. A title...

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

    _Sing praises_, &c. These words are repeated four times in this verse, to show how vehemently desirous the psalmist was that God might have his due praise and glory: and of what great necessity and im...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For God is the King of all the earth, the King, by His marvelous exaltation, has shown Himself the God of all the earth. SING YE PRAISES WITH UNDERSTANDING, bringing out the joyful feelings of their h...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    WITH UNDERSTANDING: Or, every one that hath understanding...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-9 Praise is a duty in which we ought to be frequent and abundant. But here is a needful rule; Sing ye praises with understanding. As those that understand why and for what reasons they praise God,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 47:7 God H430 King H4428 earth H776 praises H2167 (H8761) understanding H7919 (H8688) King -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PSALMIST SEES YHWH AS HAVING RECEIVED HIS ACCLAMATION AS KING OVER ALL THE EARTH AND OVER ALL PEOPLES (PSALMS 47:5). In this second part of the Psalm we are introduced to the triumph ceremony foll...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 47:7 I. The characteristic of united rather than of personal expression of feeling belongs to the earliest hymns introduced into the Christian Church. And in our own devotions it is very impor...

  • 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

    _God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding._ WORSHIP-SONG Hymns help to nobler worship of God and clearer visions of His face. I. Because they embody the holy thoughts and...

  • 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 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 47:5 This probably looks back to the ark going to reside in Jerusalem. 2 Samuel 6:15 tells of how the ark was made to go UP WITH A SHOUT (see...

  • 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 14:14; 1 Corinthians 14:15; Colossians 3:16; Psalms 47:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The king — Not only ours, but of all the nations of the world. Sing — Not formally and carelessly, but seriously, considering the greatness of this king whom you praise, and what abundant cause you ha...

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