Introduction
A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.
Psalms 48:0 belongs to the same occasion, and is written in the same triumphal strain, as Psalms 47:0, with this peculiarity, that it celebrates the strong fortifications of Zion as the circumstance which caused terror to the enemy. It would seem that a reconnaissance had secretly surveyed this fortress, (Psalms 48:4-6,) and pronounced it impregnable, about which a dispute and division arose among the invaders, which, with the surprise and confusion caused by the “ambushments,” (2 Chronicles 20:22,) threw the bandit nations into mutual suspicion and alarm, and finally turned their weapons upon each other. The whole history, to which the psalm is a companion piece, is highly characteristic of the Arabian nations.
The divisions are three. Psalms 48:1-3, the introduction; Psalms 48:4-8, the destruction of the enemy; Psalms 48:9-14, a thanksgiving.
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