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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Psalm 48

Chapter 48

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

A. M. 3489. B.C. 515. (Title.) Song. This Psalm is supposed to have been sung at the dedication of the second temple; though some think it was composed on the victory obtained by Jehoshaphat

2 Chronicles 20:1-37 Psalms 30:1 *title

for

or, of.

46:1 *title

Great

86:10 99:3,4 145:3 147:5

greatly

89:1-7 Nehemiah 9:5 Revelation 15:3,4 19:5

city

46:4 65:1 78:68 87:3 Hebrews 12:22 Revelation 21:2,10-22

mountain

47:8 99:9 Isaiah 2:2,3 27:13 Jeremiah 31:23 Obadiah 1:17 Micah 4:1 Zechariah 8:3 Matthew 24:15

Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Beautiful

50:2 Jeremiah 3:19 Lamentations 2:15 Daniel 8:9 11:16

joy

Isaiah 60:15-20 66:10 Ezekiel 20:6 Malachi 3:12 Hebrews 12:22

on the sides

Isaiah 14:13

the city

47:7,8 Malachi 1:14 Matthew 5:35

God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

76:1-5 125:1 2 Chronicles 12:7 14:9-15 20:1-37 Isaiah 4:5,6 37:33-36 Zechariah 2:4,5

For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

83:2-8 2 Samuel 10:6,14,16-19 Isaiah 7:1 8:8-10 10:8 29:5-8 Revelation 17:12-14 19:20 20:8,9

They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.

were

Exodus 14:25 2 Kings 7:6,7 19:35-37

Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

Fear

Exodus 15:15,16 Isaiah 13:6-8 Daniel 5:6

pain

Isaiah 21:3 Jeremiah 30:6,7 Hosea 13:13

Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

breakest

Ezekiel 27:25,26

ships

1 Kings 22:48 Isaiah 2:16

east

Jeremiah 18:17

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

As we

44:1,2 78:3-6 Isaiah 38:19

city of the Lord

1,2

God

46:5 87:5 Isaiah 2:2 Micah 4:1 Matthew 16:18

We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

thought

26:3 77:10,11 104:34 105:5,6

loving-kindness

40:10 63:3 Song of Solomon 1:4 Luke 22:19,20

in the

63:2 77:12-14 2 Chronicles 20:5-13 Isaiah 26:8

According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

According

113:3 138:2-4 Exodus 3:13-15 34:5-7 Deuteronomy 28:58 Joshua 7:9 Malachi 1:11,14

thy right

11:7 45:7 99:4 145:17 Revelation 19:2,11

Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

daughters

97:8 Song of Solomon 1:5 2:7 3:5 5:16 Isaiah 37:22 Zechariah 9:9 Luke 23:28

because

58:10 137:8,9 Judges 5:31 2 Chronicles 20:26,27 Revelation 15:4 16:5-7 18:20 Revelation 19:1-3

Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

Walk

Nehemiah 12:31-40 Matthew 24:1,2

tell

Isaiah 33:18-20

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Mark ye well

Heb. Set your heart to. consider. or, raise up.

Isaiah 58:12 Amos 9:11 Acts 15:14-16

that ye

71:18 78:4 Deuteronomy 11:19 Joel 1:3

For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

this God

16:2 31:14 73:24,26 Lamentations 3:21

guide

23:3,4 25:9 73:24 Proverbs 8:20 Isaiah 58:11 John 16:13