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Псалми 60:9

9 Кой ще ме въведе в укрепения град? Кой ще ме заведе до Едом?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Edomites;   Faith;   Thompson Chain Reference - Divine;   Leader, Divine;   The Topic Concordance - Enemies;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Edomites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Salt;   Shushan;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Joab;   Sela;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aram, Aramaeans;   Psalms;   River;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bring;   Eduth;   Intercession;   Psalms, Book of;   Salt, Valley of;   Solomon;   Song;   World (Cosmological);   Worship;   Zobah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Allegorical Interpretation;   Gilead;   Manasseh;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Who: Judges 1:12, Judges 1:24, Judges 1:25, 1 Chronicles 11:6, 1 Chronicles 11:17-19

strong city: Heb. city of strength, 2 Samuel 11:1, 2 Samuel 12:26-31

Reciprocal: Genesis 25:23 - the elder 2 Samuel 8:14 - all they 2 Samuel 22:44 - head 1 Chronicles 18:12 - slew of the Edomites

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who will bring me [into] the strong city?.... Which some understand of Rabbah of the Ammonites, which Joab besieged, and sent to David to come and take it in person, 2 Samuel 12:26. The Targum interprets it of Tyre, which was a strong fortified city, Ezekiel 26:4. It rather seems to be the same with Edom, or the metropolis of the Edomites; since it follows:

who will lead me into Edom? which was situated in the clefts of the rock, and on the height of the hill, Jeremiah 49:16; but is mystically to be understood of the city of Rome, the great and mighty city, as it is often called in the book of the Revelation, Revelation 11:8; whose destruction is certain, being predicted; and after which there have been desires raised in the hearts of God's people in all ages; and particularly just before the time God will put it into the hearts of the kings of the earth to burn it with fire; who are here represented by David, as desirous of entering into it in triumph to destroy it,

Revelation 17:16.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who will bring me into the strong city? - The strong city - the fenced, the fortified city - referred to here is doubtless the capital of Idumea. This was the celebrated city Petra, situated in the rocks, and so difficult to be taken by an enemy. For a description of it, see the notes at Isaiah 16:1. It was this city, as the capital of the land of Edom, which David was now so anxious to secure; and he asks, therefore, with interest, who among his captains, his mighty men, would undertake the task of conducting his armies there.

Who will lead me into Edom? - Into the capital, and thence into the whole land to subdue it. This was done under the combined command of Joab and Abishai his brother. See the notes at the title to the psalm.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 60:9. Who will bring me into the strong city? — If this part of the Psalm, from the sixth to the twelfth verse, refer to the return of the captives from Babylon, as I think probable; then the strong city may mean either Petra, the capital of Idumea; Bozra, in Arabia, near the mountains of Gilead; Rabba, the capital of the Ammonites; or Tyre, according to the Chaldee, the capital of Phoenicia; or Jerusalem itself, which, although dismantled, had long been one of the strongest cities of the east. Or it may imply, Who shall give me the dominion over the countries already mentioned? who will lead me into Edom? who will give me the dominion over that people?


 
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