Psalms 48:1
Unto the end. A Psalm to the sons of Korah.
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2Hear these things, all nations. Pay attention, all inhabitants of the world:
Cross References
2 Chronicles 20:1After these things, the sons of Moab, and the sons of Ammon, and with them some from the Ammonites, gathered together so that they might fight against him.
Psalms 2:6Yet I have been appointed king by him over Zion, his holy mountain, preaching his precepts.
Psalms 42:1A Psalm of David. Judge me, O God, and discern my cause from that of a nation not holy; rescue me from a man unjust and deceitful.
Psalms 46:4He has subjected the peoples to us and subdued the nations under our feet.
Psalms 65:1Unto the end. A Canticle Psalm of the Resurrection. Shout joyfully to God, all the earth.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 48:1
This psalm, as the two former, is a triumphant song; some think it was penned on occasion of Jehoshaphat's victory ( 2 Chron. xx. ), others of Sennacherib's defeat, when his army laid siege to Jerusalem in Hezekiah's time; but, for aught I know, it might be penned by David upon occasion of some eminent victory obtained in his time; yet not so calculated for that but that it might serve any other similar occasion in aftertimes, and be applicable also to the glories of the gospel church, of which Jerusalem was a… Read the whole commentary →