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- Chapter 48
- Verse 3
My Notes
Commentary
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Gill's Exposition
God is known in her palaces for a refuge. As there were palaces in Jerusalem; see Psa 48:13; so there are in the church of Christ; every place in it is a palace fit for a king; and everyone that has…
Barnes' Notes
God is known in her palaces - The word rendered “palaces” here means properly a fortress, castle, or palace, so called from its height, from a verb, ארם 'âram, meaning to elevate, to lift up. It may…
The psalmist is designing to praise Jerusalem and to set forth the grandeur of that city; but he begins with the praises of God and his greatness (Psa 48:1), and ends with the praises of God and his…
Jehovah's revelation of Himself as Zion's protector in the recent discomfiture of her enemies.
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