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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 122 A Song of degrees of David. This is the first of the songs of degrees that bears the name of David: and Kimchi thinks they only were written by him which have his name to them; though he, Abendana, and others, are of opinion that this psalm was composed with a view to the captives in Babylon; who are here represented,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I was glad when they said unto me,.... Or, "I rejoiced in", or "because of, those that said unto me" (b); or, "in what was said unto me". For it may regard not only the time when he had this pleasure of mind, but the persons who gave it, as well as the ground and reason of the things said unto him, as follows: let us go into the house of the Lord;...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
This psalm seems to have been penned by David for the use of the people of Israel, when they came up to Jerusalem to worship at the three solemn feasts. It was in David's time that Jerusalem was first chosen to be the city where God would record his name. It being a new thing, this, among other means, was used to bring the people to be in love...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. “I was glad for my own sake, for I hungered and thirsted to go into the house of the Lord; I was glad for the sake of those who offered to go with me, for I delight to see in others a longing desire to profit by the means of grace; I was glad when they said unto me, ‘Let us...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. I was glad for their sake, glad to think they were so willing to go. I was glad also for my own sake, for I was glad to go, too.
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. Good children are pleased to go home, and glad to hear their brothers and sisters call them thither. David's heart was in the worship of God, and he was delighted when he found others inviting him to go where his desires had already gone: it helps the ardour of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. Which is to be understood not merely literally of the city of Jerusalem, and of continuance in the possession of it, it being lately taken out of the hands of the Jebusites; but spiritually of the church of God, which is often called by this name; the gates of which are the same as the gates of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: So is every true church of God when it is in a healthy state. There are no divisions, no schisms: “Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together.” It is not a long straggling street, a dislocated village; but all the houses are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. Happy men who were citizens of such a city! Happy worshippers coming together to the place whose very name signifies the vision of peace, the metropolis of God, type of the New Jerusalem which is from above!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together. In David's time the upper and lower city were joined together, the streets regularly built, the houses contiguous, not straggling about, here and there one (c). So the church of God, like that, is built in a good situation, on a rock and hill, where it is firm and visible; like a city full...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Not a conglomeration of huts, but builded as a city with substantial structures; and not a straggling city, like some we read of, that have been called “cities of magnificent distances,” but it was “compact together.” Happy is the church that is at peace; blessed are the people who are...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord,.... The twelve tribes of Israel; the males of them went up three times a year to Jerusalem to worship, at the feasts of passover, pentecost, and tabernacles; and was typical of the church of Christ, where the worship of God is carried on, his word preached, and ordinances administered; and whither...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD. We should go up to the house of God, then, for two purposes, first, “unto the testimony of Israel;” that is, to hear what God testifies to us, and also publicly to testify our confidence in him; and, next, we should go up “to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD. The Church is the point of meeting: “Whither the tribes go up.” The Church is the place of “testimony,” and saints go to hear testimony, and they go to bear it. I wish there was more of this bearing testimony among Christian...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For there are set thrones of judgment,.... In Jerusalem as the Targum; here were courts of judicature, and thrones for the judges to sit upon, to execute judgment and justice to the people; the thrones of the house of David; the Targum is, "thrones in the house of the sanctuary, for the kings of the house of David;'' who might sit there, as the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. The preaching of the gospel is like the setting up of a throne of judgment, “for the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two- edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem,.... This is said to the persons that solicited the psalmist to go into the house of the Lord; to the truly godly among the tribes that went thither to worship; to his brethren and companions, for whose sake he wished well to Zion; to praying souls, who should not be singular and selfish; not only pray for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: Ask that she may be free from persecution without, and from anything like disturbance within: “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.” Psa_122:6. They shall prosper that love thee. Neglect of the means of grace is the death of all soul-prosperity; but an earnest love to the house of God, and all who belong to God, will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. If any of the people had been wronged by the petty magistrates, they went up to Jerusalem, and made their appeal to the king. Here may we bring our suit before God, and order our case before him, for he is true and just, and nothing shall go amiss that is left with him....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Peace be within thy walls,.... The word say might be supplied; for this, with the following, seem to be petitions the psalmist puts into the mouths of those he desires to pray for Jerusalem's peace; and he directs them to pray in this manner, to take with them such words as these, and pray to the Lord. Jerusalem was a walled city, and so is the...