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Selected Verse: Psalms 46:7 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 46:7 |
King James |
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
with us--on our side; His presence is terror to our enemies, safety to us.
refuge--high place (Psa 9:9; compare also Psa 24:6, Psa 24:10). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The Lord of hosts - The God commanding, ordering, marshalling the hosts of heaven - the angels, and the starry worlds. See the notes at Isa 1:9. Compare Psa 24:10. The reference here is to God considered as having control over all "armies," or all that can be regarded and described as a marshalled host, in earth and in heaven. Having such a Being, therefore, for a protector, they had nothing to fear. See Psa 46:11.
Is with us - Is on our side; is our defender. The Hebrew phrase used here is employed in Isa 7:14 (notes); Isa 8:8 (notes), to describe the Messiah. See the notes at those passages.
The God of Jacob - See the notes at Psa 24:6. The meaning is, The God whom Jacob acknowedged, and whom he found to be his friend, is with us.
Is our refuge - literally, a high place, as a tower, far above the reach of enemies. See Psa 9:9, note; Psa 18:2, note. So the margin, "an high place for us." |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Raged - Against God, and against his people. Uttered - He spake to them in his wrath. The earth - The inhabitants of the earth were consumed. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The Lord of hosts is with us - We, feeble Jesvs, were but a handful of men; but the Lord of hosts - the God of armies, was on our side. Him none could attack with hope of success, and his legions could not be over-thrown.
The God of Jacob - The God who appeared to Jacob in his distress, and saved him out of all his troubles, appeared also for us his descendants, and has amply proved to us that he has not forgotten his covenant. |
10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.