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These files are a derivative of an electronic edition prepared from text scanned by Woodside Bible Fellowship.
This expanded edition of the Jameison-Faussett-Brown Commentary is in the public domain and may be freely used and distributed.
These files are a derivative of an electronic edition prepared from text scanned by Woodside Bible Fellowship.
This expanded edition of the Jameison-Faussett-Brown Commentary is in the public domain and may be freely used and distributed.
Bibliographical Information
Jamieson, Robert, D.D.; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. "Commentary on Psalms 24". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/jfb/psalms-24.html. 1871-8.
Jamieson, Robert, D.D.; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. "Commentary on Psalms 24". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible". https://www.studylight.org/
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Introduction
PSALM 24
:-. God's supreme sovereignty requires a befitting holiness of life and heart in His worshippers; a sentiment sublimely illustrated by describing His entrance into the sanctuary, by the symbol of His worship—the ark, as requiring the most profound homage to the glory of His Majesty.
Verse 1
1. fulness—everything.
world—the habitable globe, with
they that dwell—forming a parallel expression to the first clause.
Verse 2
2. Poetically represents the facts of Genesis 1:9.
Verse 3
3, 4. The form of a question gives vivacity. Hands, tongue, and heart are organs of action, speech, and feeling, which compose character.
hill of the Lord—(compare Psalms 2:6, &c.). His Church—the true or invisible, as typified by the earthly sanctuary.
Verse 4
4. lifted up his soul—is to set the affections (Psalms 25:1) on an object; here,
vanity—or, any false thing, of which swearing falsely, or to falsehood, is a specification.
Verse 5
5. righteousness—the rewards which God bestows on His people, or the grace to secure those rewards as well as the result.
Verse 6
6. Jacob—By "Jacob," we may understand God's people (compare Isaiah 43:22; Isaiah 44:2, &c.), corresponding to "the generation," as if he had said, "those who seek Thy face are Thy chosen people."
Verse 7
7-10. The entrance of the ark, with the attending procession, into the holy sanctuary is pictured to us. The repetition of the terms gives emphasis.
Verse 10
10. Lord of hosts—or fully, Lord God of hosts (Hosea 12:5; Amos 4:13), describes God by a title indicative of supremacy over all creatures, and especially the heavenly armies (Joshua 5:14; 1 Kings 22:19). Whether, as some think, the actual enlargement of the ancient gates of Jerusalem be the basis of the figure, the effect of the whole is to impress us with a conception of the matchless majesty of God.