Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 21:10
Fruit — Their children. God will take away both root and branch, the parents and all that wicked race.
Fruit — Their children. God will take away both root and branch, the parents and all that wicked race.
Verse Psalms 21:10. _THEIR FRUIT SHALT THOU DESTROY_] Even their _posterity_ shall be cut off, and thus their _memorial_ shall perish....
THEIR FRUIT - Their offspring; their children; their posterity, for so the parallelism demands. The “fruit” is that which the tree produces; and hence, the word comes to be applied to children as the...
Psalms 21 The King's Glory Anticipated and Contemplated _ 1. The King's power, glory and salvation (Psalms 21:1)_ 2. His victory over the enemies (Psalms 21:7)...
XXI. A THANKSGIVING FOR ROYAL VICTORY. The indications of date are the same as in Psalms 20, though the tone is less religious. PSALMS 21:4_ B_. For the hyperbole _cf._ 1 Kings 1:31; Psalms 61:7 f....
CHILDREN. sons. MEN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14....
The king, who must be supposed to be present, is now addressed. This victory is an earnest of future victories. The total destruction of all his enemies is confidently anticipated....
Even their posterity shall be utterly destroyed. Cp. Psalms 9:5; Psalms 37:28. _Fruit_= children, -the fruit of the womb" (Lamentations 2:20)....
PSALMS 21 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Thanks for the King's Victory, and Confidence of Further Triumphs. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 21:1-6, Recent Victory with Joy Acknowledged, Psalms 21:1-2; traced back to...
_THEIR FRUIT SHALT THOU DESTROY FROM THE EARTH, AND THEIR SEED FROM AMONG THE CHILDREN OF MEN._ Their fruit ... and their seed - "fruit" - i:e., progeny (Psalms 127:3)....
The title and authorship have been discussed under Psalms 20, to which this forms a sequel. Its contents include a thanksgiving to God for His blessings to the king (Psalms 21:1), an address to the ki...
The king will destroy young and old among his enemies—the terrible custom of ancient conquerors. 11, 12. Read, 'For though they intend.. though they imagine.. they shall not prevail, for thou shalt m...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
THEIR FRUIT. — More fully, “fruit of the womb” (Psalms 127:3; Psalms 132:11)....
_[Psalms 21:11]_ פִּ֭רְיָמֹו מֵ אֶ֣רֶץ תְּאַבֵּ֑ד וְ֝...
Psalms 21:1 This psalm is a pendant to the preceding. There the people prayed for the king; here they give thanks for him: there they asked that his desires might be fulfilled; here they bless Jehovah...
REJOICING IN THE STRENGTH OF JEHOVAH Psalms 21:1 This is a companion to the psalm preceding. The blessings there asked for are here gladly acknowledged to have been granted; and bright anticipations...
The battle is over, the victory is won, and the assembled people sing the song of victory. This song, while it celebrates one victory, runs beyond it and praises Jehovah for all He has done for the ki...
Womb. David might say this as a figure of Christ, in consequence of the many favours which he had received. (Theodoret) (Calmet) --- But none could use these expressions with propriety, but Jesus Chri...
I do not interrupt the reading of these verses, that I may not swell the Commentary unnecessarily: they all refer to one and the same thing. The King Mediator having, by his own personal victories, es...
Psalms 19 _ Proper Psalm for Christmas Day_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 19-21 = _ Day 4_ (_Morning_)....
10._Thou shalt destroy their fruit from the earth. _David amplifies the greatness of God’s wrath, from the circumstance that it shall extend even to the children of the wicked. It is a doctrine common...
In Psalms 21 we get the full answer to Psalms 20 and its desires, in the exaltation of Christ, throwing its light back on the true character of that psalm. The king rejoices in Jehovah's strength and...
THEIR FRUIT SHALL THOU DESTROY FROM THE EARTH,.... Meaning the offspring of wicked men; the fruit of the womb, Psalms 127:3; the same with their seed in the next clause: AND THEIR SEED FROM AMONG THE...
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. Ver. 10. _Their fruit shalt thou destroy_] _i.e._ Their labour, and that which comes thereof, Proverbs 21...
_Their fruit shalt thou destroy_ Their children. God will take away both root and branch; the parents and all that wicked race. _For they intended evil against thee_ That is, against God; not directly...
THE CONFIDENCE OF FINAL TRIUMPH...
Their fruit, that is, their children, their posterity, SHALT THOU DESTROY FROM THE EARTH AND THEIR SEED, all those descending from them, FROM AMONG THE CHILDREN OF MEN, because they followed their par...
7-13 The psalmist teaches to look forward with faith, and hope, and prayer upon what God would further do. The success with which God blessed David, was a type of the total overthrow of all Christ's...
THEIR FRUIT; either, 1. The fruit of their labours. Or rather, 2. Their seed or children, as it is explained in the next branch, oft called a man's _fruit_, as Deuteronomy 28:4 Psalms 127:3, Psalms 1...
Psalms 21:10 offspring H6529 destroy H6 (H8762) earth H776 descendants H2233 sons H1121 men H120...
ATTENTION NOW TURNS TO THE KING DECLARING HIS REWARD AND HIS SUCCESS BECAUSE HE TRUSTS IN YHWH (PSALMS 21:8). Psalms 21:8 Your hand will find out all your enemies, Your right hand will find out tho...
Psalms 21:1. _The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!_ See how greatly Christ rejoices, how full his heart is of gladness as he sees God's power...
Psalms 21:1. _The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Se...
CONTENTS: Praise for blessing and confidence for further victory. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Let praise be the blossom of prayer. Though we cannot sing a note in honor of our own strength,...
Psalms 21:1. _The king shall joy._ The Targum here, and in other places, expressly names, “The King Messiah.” Psalms 21:3. _A crown of pure gold._ Here again, as in Psalms 19:10, the LXX read, and the...
_The king shall Joy in Thy strength, O Lord; and in Thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice._ THE FEELINGS OF THE GOOD IN RELATION TO THE SUBJUGATION OF EVIL Take the literal view of this Psalm a...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 21:8 When the king (YOU) lives by the Davidic ideal, God takes hostility against the king as hostility against himself. Thus the godly king is the tool of God’s WRATH....
INTRODUCTION “The prayer which the Church offers up at the conclusion of the preceding psalm now issues in a hymn of praise, the result of a believing view of the glory which is to follow, when Messia...
EXPOSITION Psalms 21:1 is generally regarded as a companion composition to Psalms 20:1, being the thanksgiving after the victory for which the preceding psalm was the supplication. It consists of thr...
Again, to the chief musician, the psalm of David. The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and you have n...
1 Kings 13:34; Isaiah 14:20; Job 18:16; Job 20:28; Malachi 4:1;...