Psalms 24:2

For he hath founded it upon the seas,.... Or "with" them, as some interpret (e) the particle he hath founded the earth and seas together, and both upon nothing; and yet are stable and firm; or "by the…

For he hath founded it upon the seas - That is, the earth, or the habitable world. The ground of the claim to the earth and all that it contains, which is here asserted, is the fact that God had…

Here is, I. God's absolute propriety in this part of the creation where our lot is cast, Psa 24:1. We are not to think that the heavens, even the heavens only, are the Lord's, and the numerous and…

For he&c. HE is emphatic. It is HE and no other who laid the foundation of the world (Psa 104:5; Job 38:4). The land rising out of the water is supposed to rest upon it. Cp. Psa 136:6; and the idea of…