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Verse Psalms 48:12. _WALK ABOUT ZION_] Consider the beauty and
magnificence of the temple, count the towers by which it is fortified....
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WALK ABOUT ZION - This is a call on all persons to go round the city;
to take a survey of it; to see how beautiful and how strong it was -
how it had escaped all danger, and was uninjured by the attem...
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Psalms 48
The Judgment of the Nations and the Millennium
_ 1. Jerusalem the city of the King (Psalms 48:1)_
2. The confederated nations scattered (Psalms 48:4)
3. The millennium ...
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XLVIII. A PSALM WHICH DESCRIBES THE IMPRESSION MADE ON A PILGRIM BY
HIS VISIT TO ZION.
Psalms 48:1 f. Praise of Zion. SIDES OF THE NORTH is hard to
comprehend. It has been explained as contrasting Zio...
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WALK ABOUT. They were now free to do this.
TOWERS. Many discovered on the east side of Ophel in recent
excavations....
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The lessons of deliverance....
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DISCOURSE: 581
THE CHURCH’S SECURITY IN GOD
Psalms 48:12. _Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the
towers thereof: mark ye well her bulwarks; consider her palaces; that
ye may tell it to th...
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LET MOUNT ZION REJOICE, &C.— Dr. Delaney thinks that these verses
allude to the great improvements made at Jerusalem, the temple on
mount Moriah, Millo, the house of the forest of Lebanon, the palace...
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PSALMS 48
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Jehovah Worthy to be Praised in his Holy City, whose History rebounds
to the Honour of her Shepherd-King, who will yet Lead Israel against
Death.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psa...
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_WALK ABOUT ZION, AND GO ROUND ABOUT HER: TELL THE TOWERS THEREOF._
Tell the towers thereof - number them, to see that not one is wanting,
and that the enemies' formidable invasion has not in the lea...
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This Ps. celebrates the safety and glory of Jerusalem, and the praise
of her divine King. The deliverance He has wrought is vividly
portrayed, and we can hardly fail to recognise that the overthrow of...
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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...
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WALK ABOUT ZION. — Notice here the strong patriotic feeling of
Hebrew song. The inhabitants of the city are invited to make a tour of
inspection of the defences which, under God’s providence, have
pro...
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_[Psalms 48:13]_ סֹ֣בּוּ צִ֭יֹּון וְ
הַקִּיפ֑וּהָ סִ֝פְר֗וּ...
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Psalms 48:1
THE situation seems the same as in Psalms 46:1, with which this psalm
has many points of contact. In both we have the same triumph, the same
proud affection for the holy city and sanctuary...
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“THE CITY OF OUR GOD”
Psalms 48:1
This psalm also probably dates from 2 Chronicles 20:20. Tekoa was only
three hours' march from Jerusalem and commanded an extensive view, so
that Psalms 48:4 were li...
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In Psa 46:1-11 the dominant note was of confidence, because of the
government of God in the midst of His people. This is a song
describing the experience resulting from such government. It is the
anth...
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(l) Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
(l) For in this outward defence and strength God's blessings also
appeared, but the chief is to be referred to God's favour and s...
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Sepulchres. Hebrew Kobrom is better than the present Kirbam, their
"interior," and is adopted by the Chaldean, Syriac, &c. (Calmet) ---
"Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for e...
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Strangers are challenged to see if they can discover any tokens like
ruin, or want, or misery. No! Zion still flourisheth, and must
flourish, and be a perfection of beauty. Her ordinances, her courts,...
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12and 13_Encompass Zion, etc. _Here the prophet again commends the
situation and beauty of Jerusalem, intimating that the city was
strongly fortified and impregnable; and he does this, because in thes...
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Psalms 48 completes this series. Jehovah is fully established as
Israel's God in Zion, now the praise of the whole earth, the city of
the great King, and in whose palaces God is well known as a refuge...
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WALK ABOUT ZION, AND GO ROUND ABOUT HER,.... These words are either an
address to the enemies of the church, sarcastically delivered; calling
upon them to come, and surround, and besiege Zion, and see...
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Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
Ver. 12. _Walk about Sion, and tell the towers thereof_] _q.d._ Are
they not still the same and as many as they were before the appro...
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_Walk about Zion_, &c. He speaks probably to the people of the city
and kingdom, who had been eye-witnesses of the glorious work God had
wrought for their deliverance. Bishop Patrick thus paraphrases...
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Walk about Zion, taking the opportunity of examining the Church
closely, both in its appearance and in its work, AND GO ROUND ABOUT
HER; TELL THE TOWERS THEREOF, counting the many means of defense whi...
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ZION AS A TYPE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
A song and psalm for the sons of Korah, written by one of their number
to set forth the privileges and blessings of God's dominion in His
Church....
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8-14 We have here the improvement which the people of God are to make
of his glorious and gracious appearances for them. Let our faith in
the word of God be hereby confirmed. Let our hope of the stab...
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He speaketh, either,
1. To the enemies, as triumphing over them. Or rather,
2. To the people of that city and kingdom, who had been eye-witnesses
of this glorious work of God, as appears from the fol...
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Psalms 48:12 about H5437 (H8798) Zion H6726 around H5362 (H8685) Count
H5608 (H8798) towers H4026
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THE TRIUMPHANT INSPECTION (PSALMS 48:12).
This may well originally have indicated a celebratory inspection of
the walls carried out in triumphal procession in order to give
thanksgiving to God, and i...
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Psalms 48:11
I. There are times when heart and brain fail and are weary beneath the
weight of the years that have been and the thought of those that are
yet to be, times when the whole being sinks bac...
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Psalms 48
There is one event, and only one, in Jewish history which corresponds
point for point to the details of this Psalm the crushing destruction
of the Assyrian army under Sennacherib. We may, wi...
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A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah. It is not every Psalm that is
a song, for some Psalms are full of sorrow and it is not every song
that is a Psalm, for, alas! there are many songs that are mere...
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Psalms 48:1. _Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city
of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation,
the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of...
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CONTENTS: Praise of the beauty and strength of Mount Zion, the city of
God.
CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist.
CONCLUSION: There is one city which is the world's star (Jerusalem),
the most precious pearl of...
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Title. _A psalm for the sons of Korah._ Asaph being dead, and his sons
not named, we infer that the psalm, as many think, was composed on the
Assyrian invasion; for then God was truly great in Zion, i...
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_Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised._
A SONG OF DELIVERANCE
The psalm has manifestly some historical basis. What is it? The psalm
gives these points--a formidable muster before Jerusalem of...
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_As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of Hosts,
in the city of our God._
“AS WE HAVE HEARD, SO HAVE WE SEEN”
This is seldom true. In many places we see what we have not heard, a...
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_Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof._
THE LOVE OF ZION
So they revered the city on the hill. Their affections clustered round
about its sacred courts. They loved the ver...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 48:1. Like Psalms 46:1, Psalms 48:1 is a
hymn celebrating Z
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 48:12 The worshipers know that God’s people
are secure. They are commissioned to TELL THE NEXT GENERATION of their
security and their mission....
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription_. “_A Song and Psalm_.” “It is not easy,” says
Barnes, “to account for this double appellation, or to distinguish
between the meaning of these words, though _probably_ the...
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EXPOSITION
HERE we have another psalm of thanksgiving for a deliverance, but not
apparently for the same deliverance as gave occasion for either of the
two preceding psalms. Israel had now been delive...
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Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God,
in the mountains of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of
the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, th...
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Isaiah 33:18; Matthew 24:1; Matthew 24:2; Nehemiah 12:31...