To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
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Gill's Exposition
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron. Which is thought to allude to what was done to the Canaanitish kings, in the times of Joshua; and to the princes of Midian by…
Barnes' Notes
To bind their kings with chains - To make them prisoners and captives. This is but carrying out the idea in the previous verses, of inflicting punishment upon them for the wrongs which they had done…
The Israel of God are here represented triumphing over their enemies, which is both the matter of their praise (let them give to God the glory of those triumphs) and the recompence of their praise;…
Cambridge Bible
The subjection and homage of the nations to Israel are repeatedly anticipated in the later Chapter s of Isaiah (Isa 45:14; Isa 49:7; Isa 49:23; Isa 60:3 ff.). In Psalms 2 the Messianic king, here the…