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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 47:1-4

The psalmist, having his own heart filled with great and good thoughts of God, endeavours to engage all about him in the blessed work of praise, as one convinced that God is worthy of all blessing and praise, and as one grieved at his own and others? backwardness to and barrenness in this work. Observe, in these verses, I. Who are called upon to praise God: ?All you people, all you people of Israel;? those were his own subjects, and under his charge, and therefore he will engage them to praise... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 47:5-9

We are here most earnestly pressed to praise God, and to sing his praises; so backward are we to this duty that we have need to be urged to it by precept upon precept, and line upon line; so we are here (Ps. 47:6): Sing praises to God, and again, Sing praises, Sing praises to our King, and again, Sing praises. This intimates that it is a very necessary and excellent duty, that it is a duty we ought to be frequent and abundant in; we may sing praises again and again in the same words, and it is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 47:1

O clap your hands, all ye people , Meaning the Gentiles more especially; see Psalm 117:1 compared with Romans 15:9 ; who had reason to rejoice and be glad, since the ascended Lord and King here spoken of was given to be their Saviour, was the propitiation for their sins, and had given himself a ransom price for them; and now the Gospel was preached among them, by an order from him after his resurrection; and upon his ascension gifts were bestowed on his apostles, qualifying them for it;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 47:2

For the Lord most high is terrible ,.... Christ is not only the Son of the Highest, but he himself is the most high God, God over all, blessed for ever. He is higher than the highest, than the angels in heaven, or any of the sons of men on earth. He is the high and lofty One, that dwells in the high and lofty place. And even this character agrees with him as the ascended Lord and King in his human nature; he is ascended on high, is set down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. He is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 47:3

He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. As Joshua, his type, subdued the Canaanites; and as David, another type of subdued the Syrians, Moabites, and others: the Jews from these words expect, that, in the times of the Messiah they look for, the Gentiles in a literal sense will be subdued by him, and become subject to them; but these, and all other expressions of the like kind, are to be understood in a spiritual sense; such as Isaiah 49:23 ; and which will have... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 47:4

He shall choose our inheritance for us ,.... Either a portion in this life; God knows what is best for his people, and therefore they should leave it with him, who can make a better choice for them than for themselves: an Heathen F3 Socrates apud Valer. Maxim. l. 7. c. 2. extern. 1. once gave this advice, "give thyself wholly to the will and disposal of the celestial ones; for they who are used to give good things easily can also choose the fittest.' Or the heavenly inheritance, so... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 47:5

God is gone up with a shout ,.... That is, the Son of God, who is truly and properly God, equal to the Father, having the same perfections; God manifest in the flesh, the Word that was made flesh, and dwelt among men on earth; who in the next clause is called "Lord" or "Jehovah", being the everlasting "I AM", which is, and was, and is to come; he having done his work on earth he came about, went up from earth to heaven in human nature, really, locally, and visibly, in the sight of his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 47:6

Sing praises to God ,.... That is gone up with a shout, Christ Jesus, our ascended Lord and King, as the apostles did at the time of his ascension, Luke 24:52 ; sing praises; sing praises unto our King, sing praises : who was then made Lord and Christ, declared King of saints, and crowned with glory and honour; the repetition of the phrase sing praises denotes frequency, constancy, fervency, and great devotion in the performance of this service; and that the ascension of Christ, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 47:7

For God is the King of all the earth ,.... Or "the king of all the earth is God" F5 So Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis. ; the same that is ascended into heaven, and is King of saints, even Christ Jesus; and so he will appear to be, especially in the latter day; See Gill on Psalm 47:2 ; sing ye praises with understanding ; or, as De Dieu renders it, to him that understandeth, that is, to God the only wise, whose understanding is infinite; even to Christ,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 47:8

God reigneth over the Heathen ,.... He reigned over Israel under the former dispensation, and now he reigns over the Gentiles under the Gospel dispensation; as appears by the numerous instances of conversion among them in the first ages of Christianity; and by the many churches that were planted by the means of the apostles; and by the destruction of the Roman Pagan empire under the sixth seal, Revelation 6:12 ; and which will still more appear by the destruction of Rome Papal, when all... read more

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