Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 45:1-17
Psalms 45:0 The Answer: The King Messiah and His Glory 1. The King in His majesty and power (Psalms 45:1-5 ) 2. His throne and His glory (Psalms 45:6-8 ) 3. With the King, sharing His glory and kingdom (Psalms 45:9-17 ) This beautiful Psalm, a perfect gem, gives the answer to the prayer of distress, “Arise for our help”, with which the preceding Psalm closed. It is also a Maschil Psalm and a traditional view claims Solomon as the author. And how the critics have laboured, without... read more
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 45:1-17
Psalms 45:1-17THIS is an epithalamion or ode on a king’s marriage. The usual bewildering variety of conjectures as to his identity meets us in commentaries. The older opinion points to Solomon’s marriage to an Egyptian princess, to which it is objected that he was not a warrior king, as the monarch of the psalm is. Hitzig regards "daughter of Tyre," in Psalms 45:12 as a vocative, and therefore looks for a king who married a Tyrian woman. He is obliged to go to the northern kingdom to find one,... read more