Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 48:3
God is known in her palaces for a (d) refuge.
(d) Unless God is the defence of it, neither situation nor munition can prevail.
God is known in her palaces for a (d) refuge.
(d) Unless God is the defence of it, neither situation nor munition can prevail.
Verse Psalms 48:3. _GOD IS KNOWN IN HER PALACES FOR A REFUGE._] All those who worship there in spirit and truth, find God for their refuge. But the words may be understood: God is known for the defenc...
GOD IS KNOWN IN HER PALACES - The word rendered “palaces” here means properly a fortress, castle, or palace, so called from its height, from a verb, ארם _'âram_, meaning to elevate, to lift up. It ma...
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...
IS KNOWN. hath made Himself known....
More exactly: God hath made himself known in her palaces for a high fortress. This verse is commonly connected with Psalms 48:1. But Psalms 48:1 describe the relation of Zion to Jehovah generally, w...
Jehovah's revelation of Himself as Zion's protector in the recent discomfiture of her enemies....
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...
_GOD IS KNOWN IN HER PALACES FOR A REFUGE._ God is known in her palaces for a refuge - literally, 'a high place,' as in Psalms 46:7; Psalms 46:11. God is known by experience to be such a high place,...
48:3 as (i-7) Or 'God is in her palaces. he is known as.'...
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...
IS KNOWN] RV 'hath made himself known.'...
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...
REFUGE. — See Note, Psalms 46:1. Prominence should be given to the idea of security from _height._ We might render, “God among her castles is known as a high and secure tower.”...
_[Psalms 48:4]_ אֱלֹהִ֥ים בְּ אַרְמְנֹותֶ֗יהָ נֹודַ֥ע לְ...
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...
_Earth-born. Hebrew, "sons of Adam," a title belonging to the meanest. Progenies terræ. Perseus vi. 56. (Calmet) --- So Callimachus styles the giants, "mud-born." (Haydock)--- Yet Houbigant explains i...
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...
3._God in her palaces is known for a defense _Here the sacred poet again brings forward, for the purpose of setting forth the dignity of the city of Jerusalem, the protection which God afforded it; as...
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...
GOD IS KNOWN IN HER PALACES FOR A REFUGE. As there were palaces in Jerusalem; see Psalms 48:13; so there are in the church of Christ; every place in it is a palace fit for a king; and everyone that ha...
God is known in her palaces for a refuge. Ver. 3. _God is known in her palaces for a refuge_] As the city was an ornament to the whole country, so was God to the city, as being a common refuge to bot...
_God is known_ To his people, by sensible and long experience; _in her palaces_ In the habitations of the city, and not only in the cottages, or meaner dwellings, but in the palaces: the princes and g...
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....
God is known in her palaces for a refuge, having given evidence of His gracious protection and deliverance in so many troubles; the citadels of the spiritual Jerusalem are upheld by His divine power....
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...
GOD IS KNOWN to his people by sensible and long experience, and to all neighbouring nations by their own observation. IN HER PALACES, i. e in the habitations, or to the inhabitants of that city. Possi...
Psalms 48:3 God H430 palaces H759 known H3045 (H8738) refuge H4869 Psalms 76:1-5,...
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 48:3 I. God. The first germ of religion is the conception of God. God is a Spirit, and only spiritual natures can worship. Even false worship argues a constitutional capacity for the true. The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_God is known in her palaces for a refuge._ THE SECRET OF NATIONAL GREATNESS It is not the nation makes the people, but the people make the nation. On the rulers depends the nation’s prosperity. Whe...
_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...
2 Chronicles 12:7; 2 Chronicles 14:9; 2 Chronicles 20:1; Isaiah 37:33;...
Known — By long experience. Palaces — Possibly he may point at the king's palace and the temple, which was the palace of the king of heaven; which two palaces God did in a singular manner protect, and...