Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 48:2
The joy — This is spoken prophetically, because the joyful doctrine of the gospel was to go from thence to all nations. The city — Of God, who justly calls himself a great king.
The joy — This is spoken prophetically, because the joyful doctrine of the gospel was to go from thence to all nations. The city — Of God, who justly calls himself a great king.
Verse Psalms 48:2. _THE JOY OF THE WHOLE EARTH_] Commentators have been greatly puzzled to show in what sense Zion, or the temple, could be said to be the _joy of the whole earth_. If we take the ear...
BEAUTIFUL FOR SITUATION - The word rendered “situation” - נוף _nôph_ - means properly “elevation, height,” (Ges. Lexicon); and the idea here is, that the mountain referred to is “beautiful for elevat...
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 ...
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...
SITUATION. elevation. EARTH: or land. MOUNT ZION. Immediately south of Moriah. See App-68. THE SIDES OF THE NORTH: i.e. with Moriah and the Temple immediately on the north side. THE CITY OF THE GRE...
The theme of the Psalm: the greatness of Jehovah and the glory of His city....
_Beautiful for situation_ Rather, as R.V., beautiful in elevation. Cp. Psalms 50:2. "Its elevation," writes Dean Stanley, "is remarkable; occasioned not from its being on the summit of one of the nume...
BEAUTIFUL FOR SITUATION, &C.— The expression of mount Sion's being _the joy of the whole earth,_ seems to allude to the promise made to the patriarch, that in his seed all the nations of the earth sho...
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...
_BEAUTIFUL FOR SITUATION, THE JOY OF THE WHOLE EARTH, IS MOUNT ZION, ON THE SIDES OF THE NORTH, THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING._ Beautiful for situation - rather, 'in its elevation' х_ NOWP_ (H5131)]. In...
48:2 earth, (h-9) Or 'land,' _ erets_ . see 1 Samuel 2:8 ....
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...
FOR SITUATION] RV 'in elevation.' _On_ THE SIDES OF THE NORTH] An obscure clause. 'The sides of the north' may mean the Temple hill, as distinguished from the rest of the city: or, as some think, ther...
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...
SITUATION. — Heb., _nôph._ A word only found here, but explained from a cognate Arabic word to mean _elevation._ And this feature is quite distinctive enough of Jerusalem to lend confirmation to this...
_[Psalms 48:3]_ יְפֵ֥ה נֹוף֮ מְשֹׂ֪ושׂ כָּל ־הָ֫...
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...
“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...
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...
Beautiful for situation, the (c) joy of the whole earth, [is] mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King. (c) Because the word of salvation came there to all who would believ...
Beautiful and distinguished indeed is the church, the gospel church of Jesus. Is this Zion, said some of old, whom no man looketh after? Yes! But where are those cities the world hath been running aft...
2._Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion _For the confirmation of the statement made in the preceding sentence, the prophet celebrates the excellencies for which mount Zio...
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...
BEAUTIFUL FOR SITUATION,.... This, and what follows, are said of the city of God, the city of Jerusalem, which was delightfully situated on an eminence, in a wholesome air; the brook Kidron gliding by...
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, [is] mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King. Ver. 2. _Beautiful for situation_] A beautiful nymph, so R. Solomon. Or,...
_Beautiful for situation is mount Zion_ A beautiful place it is, which he hath chosen for his habitation; and that which especially renders it beautiful is, that it is the mountain of God's holiness,...
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....
Beautiful for situation, elevated for the sake of bringing out the beauty of its location on the hill, THE JOY OF THE WHOLE EARTH, as it deserves to be according to the opinion of the spiritual Israel...
1-7 Jerusalem is the city of our God: none on earth render him due honour except the citizens of the spiritual Jerusalem. Happy the kingdom, the city, the family, the heart, in which God is great, in...
THE JOY OF THE WHOLE EARTH: Jerusalem may be so called here, as it is also LAMENTATIONS 2:15, not actually, as if all people did rejoice in it, or for it; but, 1. Fundamentally or causally, because he...
Psalms 48:2 Beautiful H3303 elevation H5131 joy H4885 earth H776 Mount H2022 Zion H6726 sides H3411 north H6828 city...
THE GREATNESS OF GOD AND THE BEAUTY OF THE PLACE WHICH REPRESENTS HIS DWELLING AMONG MEN (PSALMS 48:1). Psalms 48:13 ‘Great is YHWH, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, in his holy m...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion._ SPIRITUAL NATIONALITY I. A rehearsal of Jewish history. This is necessary in order to understand the inner meaning of this psalm....
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 48:1. Like Psalms 46:1, Psalms 48:1 is a hymn celebrating Z
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...
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...
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...
Daniel 11:16; Daniel 8:9; Ezekiel 20:6; Hebrews 12:22; Isaiah 14:13;...