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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Psalms 87:2

Read with reference to Christ, this verse is most beautiful; for it is in Christ the Lord visiteth and rejoiceth in his people. Lovely as Jacob's praying seed are, yet they are so only in Jesus. The acceptation of their persons and their offerings is all in Christ. Ephesians 1:6.

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See also Psalms 87:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 87:2. _THE LORD LOVETH THE GATES OF ZION MORE THAN ALL THE_ _DWELLINGS OF JACOB._] That is, he preferred Zion for his habitation, to be the place of his temple and sanctuary, before any...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE LORD LOVETH THE GATES OF ZION - Compare Psalms 78:68. The gates of a city were the places of concourse; where business was transacted; where courts were held. The particular allusion here seems to...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 87 Zion and Its Coming Glories Another Korah Psalm. Zion is the object of Jehovah's love where He will manifest His glory. Glorious things are spoken of the city of God. This we learn from ma...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LXXXVII. ZION THE MOTHER OF ALL YAHWEH'S PEOPLE. When this Ps. was written, the Jews were scattered everywhere in the known world. But every true Jew recognised Jerusalem as his mother city. The glory...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. ZION. See App-68. JACOB. Israel viewed in connection with the natural seed, and with material blessings. See notes on Genesis 32:28; Genesis 43:6; Genesis 45:26;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The glory of Zion the city of God....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the gates of Zion_ A poetical expression for the city, specially appropriate with reference to the thought of the crowd of pilgrims (Psalms 122:2) entering it from all nations (Isaiah 60:11; Revelati...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 87 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Glorious Destiny of Zion as the Metropolis of the Nations. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 87:1-3, Jehovah's Preferential Love for Zion Declared. Stanza II., Psalms 87:4-...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. THE LORD LOVETH THE GATES OF ZION MORE THAN ALL THE DWELLINGS OF JACOB - (). "The gates" are specified because it is against...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    87:2 habitations (b-11) Or 'tabernacles.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This Ps. expands the thought of Psalms 86:9. Zion is the chosen dwelling of God (Psalms 87:1), the spiritual birthplace of the other nations (Psalms 87:4), and the source of joy to them all ...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ZION] Jerusalem. THE DWELLINGS OF JACOB] other cities of Judah....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE TWO JERUSALEMS PSALMS 87 JESUS SAID, "YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN". (JOHN 3:7)...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֹהֵ֣ב יְ֭הוָה שַׁעֲרֵ֣י צִיֹּ֑ון מִ֝ כֹּ֗ל מ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 87:1 ONE clear note sounds in this remarkable psalm. Its single theme is the incorporation of ancestral foes and distant nations with the people of God. Aliens are to be enrolled as home-born c...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    CITIZENS OF ZION Psalms 87:1 This psalm blends in one great congregation the ancient foes of Israel and the Chosen People. It is a vision of the Holy Universal Church. The _Selahs_ divide it into th...

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

    This is a prophecy. The singer is looking on. The order of the earthly realisation of the Kingdom of God is seen as established. First, the city is contemplated at the centre of everything, with Jehov...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Thee. The psalm 21st is nearly similar to this. My prayer is continual. (Calmet)_...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2_Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion above all the dwellings of Jacob. _Here we are taught that all the excellence of the holy city depended on the free choice which God had made of it. With this agrees...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 87 views Zion as founded of God, a city which has foundations. Men had cities, and boasted of them; but God had a city He founded in the holy mountains. Even here it was not Joseph or the richn...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE LORD LOVETH THE GATES OF ZION,.... Which the Targum interprets of the schools, as preferable to the synagogues: the Lord loves Zion herself; that is, the church, and therefore has chosen it for hi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Ver. 2. _The Lord loveth the gates of Zion_] Nothing but his mere love moved him to make choice of it, above all other places,...

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

    _The Lord loveth the gates of Zion_ That is, the city of Zion, or Jerusalem, _gates_ being often put for _cities._ He saith _Zion_ rather than _Jerusalem_, to intimate that he loved Jerusalem for Zion...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CHURCH OF GOD THE SPIRITUAL BIRTHPLACE OF THE NATIONS. A psalm or song for the sons of Korah, a triumphal hymn in the strain of these inspired singers, celebrating the glory of the Church as the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, of the Temple situated on that mountain, as the emblem of His Church on earth, MORE THAN ALL THE DWELLINGS OF JACOB, as the place of His habitation and of the revela...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-3 Christ himself is the Foundation of the church, which God has laid. Holiness is the strength and firmness of the church. Let us not be ashamed of the church of Christ in its meanest condition, no...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE GATES, i.e. the city gates, being oft put for cities, as DEUTERONOMY 15:7, DEUTERONOMY 16:5 PSALMS 9:14. OF ZION; largely so called, as was now said, to wit, of Jerusalem, which was built upon and...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 87:2 LORD H3068 loves H157 (H8802) gates H8179 Zion H6726 dwellings H4908 Jacob H3290 The Lord -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's favor to Zion and His great love for it. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: God has expressed a particular affection for Jerusalem because there He met and conversed with His peo...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Psalms 87:1. _His foundation is in the holy mountains._ The hills of Zion and Moriah were both holy. The exordium is bold and abrupt. Mystically, the spiritual Zion, built on the foundation of the pro...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob._ THE GATES OF ZION I. God has always shown a particular respect to houses set apart for His worship. Nor is He less present w...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _His foundation is in the holy mountains._ A MATERIAL PORTRAIT OF THE SPIRITUAL CHURCH I. It is glorious in its elevation (Psalms 87:1). The spiritual Church is a city set upon a hill. Though elevat...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 87:1. This is a psalm celebrating Zion as the chosen city of God. It looks forward to people of all nations—even nations that have been Israel’s enemies—becoming citizens of...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_A Psalm of Song for the sons of Korah_.” It so far combines the properties of a religious _Psalm_ and a patriotic _song_ that either of the names may with propriety b...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS short psalm, opening with the praise of Zion, or of the Jewish Church (Psalms 87:1), passes into a glorification of the Church universal, when all the nations have come into it (Psalms...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    His foundation is in the holy mountains. The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all of the dwellings of Jacob (Psalms 87:1-2). So it's sort of a psalm which extols the city of Jerusalem which is...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 6:6; Deuteronomy 12:5; Isaiah 14:32; Joel 2:32; P

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Zion — That is, Zion itself, or Jerusalem, which was built upon and near mount Zion. He saith Zion rather than Jerusalem, to intimate that he loved Jerusalem for Zion's sake, or for the temple, which...

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