Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 47:3
Subdue — He speaks this in the name of the whole church, to which all particular believers were to submit themselves in the Lord.
Subdue — He speaks this in the name of the whole church, to which all particular believers were to submit themselves in the Lord.
Verse Psalms 47:3. _HE SHALL SUBDUE THE PEOPLE UNDER US_] He shall do again for us what he had done for our forefathers-give us dominion over our enemies, and establish us in our own land. I would ra...
HE SHALL SUBDUE THE PEOPLE UNDER US - Compare Psalms 18:39, note; Psalms 18:47, note. The word rendered “subdue” is that which commonly means” to speak.” The idea in the use of this word here is that...
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...
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...
HE SHALL SUBDUE. may He subdue. NATIONS. tribes of men....
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....
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...
HE SHALL SUBDUE, &C.— The inspired author of the psalm takes occasion to praise God for calling the Gentiles in the time of the Messiah, which, by the Holy Spirit, was then revealed to him. As if he h...
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...
_HE SHALL SUBDUE THE PEOPLE UNDER US, AND THE NATIONS UNDER OUR FEET._ He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet - i:e., the nations who league together against us, as disti...
47:3 peoples (a-4) _ Ammim_ . Psalms 7:8 . nations (b-9) _ Leummim_ . see Psalms 2:1 ....
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...
SHALL SUBDUE.. SHALL CHOOSE] RM 'subdueth.. chooseth..'...
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...
SHALL SUBDUE... SHALL CHOOSE. — Rather, _subdues, chooses,_ indicating a continued manifestation of the Divine favour....
OUR INHERITANCE. — The LXX. read, “his inheritance,” suggesting that originally the passage may have run, _He chooses us for His inheritance,_ an even commoner thought in the Hebrew mind than that of...
_[Psalms 47:4]_ יַדְבֵּ֣ר עַמִּ֣ים תַּחְתֵּ֑ינוּ וּ֝ לְאֻמִּ֗ים...
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...
“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...
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....
He shall (b) subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. (b) He has made the Jews who were the keepers of the law and prophets, schoolmasters to the Gentiles, that they would with gla...
_With. Hebrew, "the beautiful situation, the joy of the whole earth, (Menochius) Sion, sides of," &c. Chaldean, "Sion, thou art beautiful as a bride." Christ's Church is thus described, Apocalypse xxi...
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...
3._He hath set in order the people under us _Some translate the verb _he hath subjected; _and this agrees with the translation which I have given. Others translate it _he hath led, _which is somewhat...
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...
HE SHALL SUBDUE THE PEOPLE UNDER US, AND THE NATIONS UNDER OUR FEET. As Joshua, his type, subdued the Canaanites; and as David, another type of subdued the Syrians, Moabites, and others: the Jews from...
He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. Ver. 3. _He shall subdue the people under us_] This was typified in the government of the Israelites, then ascendant in David's da...
_He shall subdue the people under us_ Though this may be applied to the victories which God gave the Hebrews over the neighbouring people, yet the expressions are too magnificent to signify that only....
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...
He shall subdue the people under us, placing them in subjection to the Church by a spiritual victory, AND THE NATIONS UNDER OUR FEET, the vanquished cheerfully joining the ranks of the victors in givi...
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...
Or, _he shall lead_ like _sheep_; or, _bring into the fold_; as divers render the word, by comparing ISAIAH 5:17 MICAH 2:12. He seems to speak of such a subjugation of them, as was for the good of the...
Psalms 47:3 subdue H1696 (H8686) peoples H5971 nations H3816 feet H7272 subdue - Psalms 18:47,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
_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...
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
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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 15:25; Deuteronomy 33:29; Joshua 10:24; Joshua 10:25;...