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Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22:16

Psalms 22:16. Dogs have compassed me So he calls his enemies, or rather the enemies of Christ, for their insatiable greediness, and implacable fierceness against him. The idea seems to be taken from a number of dogs encompassing a distressed deer, which they have hunted down, as is intimated in the remarks on the title. Hereby, Dr. Dodd thinks, are represented the Roman soldiers and the other Gentiles who were with the Jews around the cross. But without such a particular application, it may... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 22:17-21

Psalms 22:17-21. I may tell all my bones Theodoret observes, that when Christ was extended, and his limbs distorted, on the cross, it might be easy for a spectator literally to tell all his bones. They Namely, my enemies; look and stare at me With delight and complacency, at my calamities, and I am a spectacle to earth and heaven. They part my garments among them This also cannot be applied to David, without a strained and unprecedented metaphor, but was literally fulfilled in Christ,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 22:1-31

Psalms 22:0 Suffering and salvationAt the time of the writing of this psalm, David had reached what he thought was the farthest extreme of suffering. He was almost at the point of despair. Christians know that they are required to share the sufferings of Christ (Colossians 1:24), but David was probably unaware that, in the experiences recorded here, he was also having a share in those sufferings. His experiences were a foretaste of the greater sufferings that the messianic king Jesus would one... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 22:16

dogs. Figure of speech Hypocatastasis. App-6 . "Enemies" being implied (not expressed). assembly = congregation: in civic aspect. wicked = breakers up. Hebrew. ra'a . App-44 . They pierced, &c. = "As a lion [they break up] my hands and my feet". The Hebrew text reads ka'ari = as a lion (the "k" = as). The Authorized Version and Revised Version, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, take the "k" as part of the verb k'aru, and alter the vowel points, making it read "they pierced". It... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 22:17

tell = count. The whole description applies to death by crucifixion only. look and stare = look for and see. In this idiom the former verb includes the feeling implied by the context. Compare 1 Samuel 17:42 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 22:18

part, &c. Quoted in Matthew 27:35 .Mark 15:24 .Luke 23:34 .John 19:24 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Psalms 22:17

"I may count all my bones.They look and stare upon me;They part my garments among them,And upon my vesture do they cast lots."No Christian needs to be told that three of the holy gospels recorded the fulfilment of the prophecies in these two verses, namely, in Matthew 27:35; Luke 23:34; and John 19:24."I may count all my bones" (Psalms 22:15). "Crucifixion would have extended the frame and have thrown the bones of the thorax into prominence."[16]"They part my garments among them, and upon my... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 22:16

Psalms 22:16. For dogs have compassed me— The idea here is, of a pack of hounds encompassing a distressed deer, which they have hunted down. See the remarks on the title. Hereby are represented the Roman soldiers and the other Gentiles who were with the Jews around the cross. Schultens renders the next clause, the assembly of the wicked, as a lion, have broken my hands and my feet. But Houbigant defends our present version. See his note. This and the following verses were literally fulfilled in... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 22:16

16. Evildoers are well described as dogs, which, in the East, herding together, wild and rapacious, are justly objects of great abhorrence. The last clause has been a subject of much discussion (involving questions as to the genuineness of the Hebrew word translated "pierce)" which cannot be made intelligible to the English reader. Though not quoted in the New Testament, the remarkable aptness of the description to the facts of the Saviour's history, together with difficulties attending any... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 22:17

17. His emaciated frame, itself an item of his misery, is rendered more so as the object of delighted contemplation to his enemies. The verbs, "look" and "stare," often occur as suggestive of feelings of satisfaction (compare Psalms 27:13; Psalms 54:7; Psalms 118:7). read more

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