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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The Lord— Or, Adonai— Psa_68:11. Gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. When God speaks, he always has publishers of his message. Our Lord found a woman at the well, and sent her back to the men of the city as his messenger, and he will find many others before his work is all done.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Kings of armies did flee apace,.... Or "they fled, they fled" (y); or "they flee, they flee". This is either the subject matter of the word "published", the words of the publishers so saying; or the effect of the publication of the Gospel: for though some, by these kings of armies, understand the apostles either fleeing from place to place because...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil. Though ye have lien among the pots,— Grimy among the brick kilns, covered with clay, and black with smoke,—despised, rejected, earthbound,—“ Though ye have lien among the pots,”—
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Though ye have lain among the pots,.... Kimchi takes these words to be the words of the women, or of the psalmist addressing the Israelites going out to war; that though they should lie in a low, dark, and disagreeable place, in the camp, in the open field, exposed to wind and weather; yet they should be fair and beautiful, and be loaded with gold...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. There are good times ahead for God’s people. Rich and rare blessings are laid up in store for them that fear him. Therefore, let us rejoice in him even now.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When the Almighty scattered kings in it,.... His inheritance, his congregation, the church, Psalms 68:9. Which some understand of his diffusing, and spreading and giving, in large numbers, ministers and preachers of the Gospel, pastors and teachers; who are kings and spiritual governors, are over churches, and have the rule over them in the Lord:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon. Driven from the bare, bleak mountain-side in gusts like feathers, the snow flies before the wind; and so, when God scatters the mighty, they cannot resist him: “It was as snow in Salmon.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The hill of God [is as] the hill of Bashan,.... The church is the hill of God, an excellent and supereminent one, and in which he dwells, as is said in Psalms 68:16; called an hill for its visibility, and especially as it will be in the latter day, when it will be established and exalted above the mountains and hills, the kingdoms of this world,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan. This hill of Zion is not high at all, it is a mere knoll compared with the lofty peaks; yet it was highly favored. So, to carnal eyes, Christ’s kingdom on earth was little in comparison with the kingdoms of this world; yet, in the sight of God, it is greater than all of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Why leap ye, ye high hills?.... Meaning the kingdoms of this world that lift up themselves above, and look with contempt upon the interest, kingdom, and church of Christ; lie in wait for it, leap upon it, insult over it, and endeavour to crush and extirpate it; but all in vain; these high hills and mountains are nothing before Zerubbabel King of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it forever. There are grander places than Zion, but if God chooses to dwell there, his presence gives her a glory and a greatness that no other spot can have. The forces at the disposal of Zion’s King are boundless; note how the psalmist...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The chariots of God [are] twenty thousand,.... By which are meant the angels, as the following clause shows; called "chariots", because they have appeared in such a form, 2 Kings 2:11; and because, like chariots of war, they are the strength and protection of the Lord's people; and because of their swiftness in doing his work; and because they are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place. Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them. As the ark went up the hill of Zion, so has Christ ascended...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou hast ascended on high,.... Which is to be understood, not of Moses ascending up to the firmament, as the Targum and Jarchi interpret it, of which we nowhere read; nor of David's going up to the high fortresses, as Aben Ezra; nor of God's ascent from Mount Sinai; but of Christ's ascension to heaven, as the apostle cites and explains it in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us [with benefits],.... With all spiritual blessings, with an abundance of grace, as well as with temporal mercies, for which he is, and ought to be, praised day by day: so Aben Ezra and Kimchi supply the text, and suppose the word "blessings" or "goodness" to be wanting; though the words may be rendered,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah. He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death. All glory be to his thrice-blessed name for all that this verse includes!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[He that is] our God,.... Or "God for us" (q); is on our side; and is the mighty God, able to save to the uttermost; [is] the God of salvation; or "God for salvations" (r); for the obtaining of them for his people, and giving them to them, even of every kind; and unto God the Lord [belong] the issues from death; deliverance from it; Christ has...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But God shall wound the head of his enemies,.... Him who is the chief of his enemies, even Satan the prince of devils, the god of the world, the father of the wicked Jews, all enemies of Christ; to "wound" is the same as to bruise him, as in Genesis 3:15; and so the Targum here, "but God shall break the head of his enemies;'' disappoint his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But God shall wound the head: of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses. The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea: Wherever his people may have gone, God will bring them all together again, “from Bashan,” or “from the depths of the sea.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The Lord said,.... Within himself, in his own heart; he resolved upon it in his mind; or he said it in council and in covenant; he undertook and engaged to do what follows; or he spoke of it in promise and in prophecy, as what would be done; I will bring again from Bashan; as he delivered his people from Og king of Bashan formerly, Numbers 21:33;...