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Sunday, November 24th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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King James Version

Psalms 122:5

For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - King;   The Topic Concordance - Jerusalem;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Degrees, Psalms of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Throne;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hallel;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Judgment-Seat;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Degrees;   Jerusalem;   Psalms the book of;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Throne;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Intercession;   Throne;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Judgment, Divine;   Shemoneh 'Esreh;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Here stand the thrones where judgment is given, the thrones of the dynasty of David.
Update Bible Version
For there are set thrones for judgment, The thrones of the house of David.
New Century Version
There the descendants of David set their thrones to judge the people.
New English Translation
Indeed, the leaders sit there on thrones and make legal decisions, on the thrones of the house of David.
Webster's Bible Translation
For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
World English Bible
For there are set thrones for judgment, The thrones of David's house.
Amplified Bible
For there the thrones of judgment were set, The thrones of the house of David.
English Standard Version
There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thei saten there on seetis in doom; seetis on the hous of Dauid.
English Revised Version
For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
Berean Standard Bible
For there the thrones of judgment stand, the thrones of the house of David.
Contemporary English Version
David's royal throne is here where justice rules.
American Standard Version
For there are set thrones for judgment, The thrones of the house of David.
Bible in Basic English
For there seats for the judges were placed, even the rulers' seats of the line of David.
Complete Jewish Bible
For there the thrones of justice were set up, the thrones of the house of David.
Darby Translation
For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
Easy-to-Read Version
The kings from David's family put their thrones here. They set up their thrones to judge the people.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For there were set thrones for judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
King James Version (1611)
For there are set thrones of iudgment: the thrones of the house of Dauid.
New Life Bible
For thrones were set there for telling who is guilty or not, the thrones of the house of David.
New Revised Standard
For there the thrones for judgment were set up, the thrones of the house of David.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For there are thrones set for iudgement, euen the thrones of the house of Dauid.
George Lamsa Translation
For there are thrones of judgment set, the thrones of the house of David.
Good News Translation
Here the kings of Israel sat to judge their people.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For there are set - Thrones for justice, Thrones for the house David.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(121-5) Because their seats have sat in judgment, seats upon the house of David.
Revised Standard Version
There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For there is ordeyned the seate for iudgement: euen the seate of the house of Dauid.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For there are set thrones for judgement, even thrones for the house of David.
Christian Standard Bible®
There, thrones for judgment are placed,thrones of the house of David.
Hebrew Names Version
For there are set thrones for judgment, The thrones of David's house.
Lexham English Bible
For there the thrones sit for judgment, thrones of David's house.
Literal Translation
For the thrones of judgment were established there, the thrones of the house of David.
Young's Literal Translation
For there have sat thrones of judgment, Thrones of the house of David.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For there is the seate of iudgement, eue the seate of the house of Dauid.
New American Standard Bible
For thrones were set there for judgment, The thrones of the house of David.
New King James Version
For thrones are set there for judgment, The thrones of the house of David.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For there thrones were set for judgment, The thrones of the house of David.
Legacy Standard Bible
For there, thrones sit for judgment,The thrones of the house of David.

Contextual Overview

1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord . 2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: 4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord , unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord . 5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

there: Deuteronomy 17:8, Deuteronomy 17:18, 2 Chronicles 19:8

are set: Heb. do sit

the thrones: 2 Samuel 8:18, 2 Chronicles 11:22

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:7 - for the throne 1 Kings 10:18 - a great throne 1 Chronicles 11:5 - the city Nehemiah 11:1 - the rulers Psalms 108:8 - Judah Psalms 137:5 - I forget Song of Solomon 7:12 - there will I give thee Jeremiah 31:23 - The Lord 1 Corinthians 4:8 - ye did Philippians 2:15 - a crooked

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For there are set thrones of judgment,.... In Jerusalem as the Targum; here were courts of judicature, and thrones for the judges to sit upon, to execute judgment and justice to the people;

the thrones of the house of David; the Targum is,

"thrones in the house of the sanctuary, for the kings of the house of David;''

who might sit there, as the Jews say, when others might not. In the church of Christ, the heavenly Jerusalem, every saint is a king, as well as a priest, and all have thrones and seats there; have a power of judging, not only lesser matters pertaining to this life, but such as regard the spiritual peace and welfare of the church and interest of Christ; having laws and rules given them to go by, in the admission and exclusion of members, and respecting their conduct to each other, and to their Lord and head: and in the New Jerusalem there will be thrones set, not only for the twelve apostles of Christ, and for the martyrs of Jesus, but for all the saints; there will be the thrones of God and of the Lamb, and every overcomer shall sit down on the same; this honour will have all the saints, Matthew 19:28.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For there are set - Margin, Do sit. The Hebrew is, “For there sit thrones for judgment.” They are established there; or, That is the appointed place for administering justice.

Thrones of judgment - Seats for dispensing justice. The word throne is now commonly appropriated to the seat or chair of a king, but this is not necessarily the meaning here. The word may denote a seat or bench occupied by a judge. The meaning here is, that Jerusalem was the supreme seat of justice; the place where justice was dispensed for the nation. It was at once the religious and the civil capital of the nation.

The thrones of the house of David - Of the family of David, who performed the office of magistrates, or who administered justice. The family of David would naturally be employed in such a service as this. This office, Absalom - who had not been appointed to it - earnestly desired, in order that he might secure popularity in his contemplated rebellion. “Oh that I were made a judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!” 2 Samuel 15:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 122:5. There are set thrones of judgment — There were the public courts, and thither the people went to obtain justice; and while the thrones of the house of David were there, they had justice.


 
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