Psalms 48:4
(48:5) For, lo, the kings were assembled, they are passed away together.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
In Context
3(48:4) God is become known in her palaces as a defence.
5(48:6) They indeed saw—[and] so they were astonished; they were terrified, they were confounded.
Cross References
2 Samuel 10:6And when the children of 'Ammon saw that they were become in bad odor with David, the children of 'Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rechob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand men on foot, and the king of Ma'achah with a thousand men, and of the people of Tob twelve thousand men.
Psalms 83:2(83:3) For, lo, thy enemies make a tumult, and they that hate thee have lifted up their head.
Isaiah 8:8And he shall penetrate into Judah, overflow and flood over, even to the neck shall he reach; and his outstretched wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O 'Immanu-el.
Isaiah 14:32And what will each one of the messengers of the nation answer? That the Lord hath founded Zion; and that therein shall find protection the poor of his people.
Isaiah 29:5And like the small dust shall be the multitude of thy barbarian enemies, and like the passing chaff the multitude of tyrants; and [this] shall be at unawares, suddenly.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 48:2-8
The Beauty and Strength of Zion. 1 Great is the Lord , and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. 2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. 3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge. 4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. 5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away. 6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail. 7… Read the whole commentary →