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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 84:11

is. sun. Figure of speech Metaphor. The only occurrence, in the Psalms, of this metaphor. It is used of Messiah, Malachi 4:2

grace and glory. Not the former without the latter (Romans 8:29; Romans 8:30). The former is the flower, the latter the fruit.

No good thing, &c. Figure of speech Tapeinosis. every good thing, beyond all mention, will He give.

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See also Psalms 84:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 84:11. _FOR THE LORD GOD_ IS _A SUN AND SHIELD_] To _illuminate,_ _invigorate_, and _warm_; to _protect_ and _defend_ all such as prefer him and his worship to every thing the earth can p...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THE LORD GOD IS A SUN - The Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate render this, “For the Lord loveth mercy and truth.” Our translation, however, is the correct one. The sun gives light, warmth, beauty,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    PSALM 84-89 Psalms 84 In View of the Sanctuary _ 1. Heart longings (Psalms 84:1)_ 2. In the sanctuary (Psalms 84:8) The two next Psalms are of the sons of Korah, who themselves are monuments of s...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LXXXIV. A PILGRIM PSALM. Psalms 84:3. sparrow (rather little bird generally) and SWALLOW are metaphorical for pious Jewish pilgrims. As the birds find their nests and homes, so the Jew, worthy of the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The pilgrims" prayer, and the ground of their confidence....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _a sun and shield_ R.V., A sun and a shield. Nowhere else in the O.T. is Jehovah directly called a sun, though the ideas conveyed by the metaphor are frequent. Cp. Psalms 27:1; Isaiah 10:17; Isaiah 60...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 641 PROMISES TO THE UPRIGHT Psalms 84:11. _The Lord God is a sun and a shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will be with hold from them that walk uprightly._ THE choic...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE LORD GOD IS A SUN AND SHIELD— _A guard and shield._ Houbigant and Bishop Hare. Others read, _a fortress and a shield._ REFLECTIONS.—1st, We have here, 1. The Psalmist admiring the beauty of God's...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 84 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Longing of a Levite for the Habitations of Jehovah in Zion, with Inspiring Memories of a Past Pilgrimage and Exultant Joy in Renewed Service. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psa...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. FOR THE LORD GOD IS A SUN AND SHIELD. This assigns the reason...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This Ps. sets forth the attractiveness of the Temple and its worship (Psalms 84:1), and the happiness of the pilgrims who gather to it from different parts of the land (Psalms 84:5). After a prayer fo...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ JOURNEY TO ZION PSALMS 84 Jesus said, "Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests. But the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head" ...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 84:12]_ כִּ֤י שֶׁ֨מֶשׁ ׀ וּ מָגֵן֮ יְהוָ֪ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 84:1 THE same longing for and delight in the sanctuary which found pathetic expression in Psalms 42:1 and Psalms 43:1, inspire this psalm. Like these, it is ascribed in the superscription to th...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    LONGING FOR THE HOUSE OF GOD Psalms 84:1 This is one of the sweetest of the Psalms. David probably composed it during his absence from Jerusalem at the time of Absalom's rebellion, though its final...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is a pilgrim psalm. It falls into three strophes divided by Selahs. The first describes the pilgrim's hope (vv. Psa 84:1-4); the second, the pilgrim's experience (vv. Psa 84:5-8); the third, pilg...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no (i) good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. (i) But will from time to time increase his blessings t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Kissed. Or, "embraced," like friends, as the ancient psalters read. The people practised these virtues after the captivity, and more particularly in the Church of Christ. (Calmet) --- At the time appo...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    A precious view, this, in the double sense of it; and which plainly shows to whom it peculiarly belongs. Jehovah Elohim, in his threefold character of person, is all this abundantly. What signifies ou...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11._Jehovah God is our sun and shield. _The idea conveyed by the comparison derived from the sun is, that as the sun by his light vivifies, nourishes, and rejoices the world, so the benign countenance...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 84 contemplates the blessedness of going up to the courts of Jehovah, yet, in the figurative allusion to the road thither, refers to the path of tears which His people have had to tread towards...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE LORD GOD IS A SUN AND SHIELD,.... Christ is "the sun of righteousness", and it is in the house of God that he arises upon his people with healing in his wings, Malachi 4:2 he is like the sun,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Ver. 11. _For the Lord God is a sun and shield_] A universa...

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

    _The Lord God is a sun_ To enlighten, quicken, direct, and comfort all his people; whereas they that live without God in the world _walk in darkness and know not whither they go_, as is said John 12:3...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    LONGING FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE WORD OF GOD. To the chief musician upon Gittith, to be used in public worship with the accompaniment of a stringed instrument brought by David from the Philistine city o...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For the Lord God is a Sun, shining upon the believers with heavenly light and life, AND SHIELD, protecting them against dangers of every kind; THE LORD WILL GIVE GRACE AND GLORY, these gifts being the...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-12 In all our addresses to God, we must desire that he would look on Christ, his Anointed One, and accept us for his sake: we must look to Him with faith, and then God will with favour look upon th...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    A SUN, to enlighten, and quicken, and direct, and comfort all his people; whereas they that live without God in the world _walk in darkness, and know not whither they go_, as is said, 1 THESSALONIANS...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 84:11 LORD H3068 God H430 sun H8121 shield H4043 LORD H3068 give H5414 (H8799) grace H2580 glory...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 84:11 Perhaps no other object in nature has so many attributes that fit it to represent a supreme and invisible source of power, and life, and government as the sun. I. Observe its universali...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. It is thought, by some interpreters, that Gittith signifies the winepress. They must have been a very godly people who sang such song...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 84:1. _How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!_ «Though they are only tabernacles, temporary structures that are soon to be taken down, and carried away, they are very dear to us. Th...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Testimony to God's goodness and the happiness of those who put their confidence in Him. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist, Jacob. CONCLUSION: True subjects love the courts of their King. Favored in...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Though the writer of this psalm is not named in the title, yet it is not doubted but David was the author. Psalms 84:1. _How amiable are thy tabernacles._ The word is plural, for the tabernacle had th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _How amiable are Thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts! _ A GOOD MAN IN RELATION TO THE SCENES OF PUBLIC WORSHIP I. As deprived of these privileges. In his deprivation he reveals-- 1. A devout admiratio...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For the Lord God is a sun and shield._ GOD A SUN AND A SHIELD This is a startling conjunction of emblems. A “sun”: the centre of a system of worlds--the very synonym for splendour--so glorious, that...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 84:1. This is a psalm celebrating pilgrimage to Jerusalem to worship at the temple. It is very much like the hymns in praise of Zion as God’s special place (e.g.,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 84:10 The final section describes the person WHO TRUSTS IN the Lord. He sincerely prefers one DAY IN God’s COURTS to a thousand

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician upon Gittith_.” (See Introduction to Psalms 81) “_A Psalm for the sons of Korah_.” (See Introduction to Psalms 42) _Occasion_.—The Psalm was evi...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This psalm, attributed (see title) to the "sons of Korah," or the Korahite Levites (see 1 Chronicles 26:1; 2 Chronicles 20:19), describes the blessedness of their position as dwellers in th...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Psa 84:1-12 is a beautiful psalm of the tabernacles of God. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cry out for...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 4:17; Galatians 2:14; Genesis 15:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    A sun — To enlighten and quicken, and direct and comfort his people. Shield — To save his people from all their enemies. Grace — His favour, which is better than life. Glory — The honour which comes f...

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