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Salmos 87:2
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O SENHOR ama as portas de Sio, mais do que todas as habitaes de Jac.
o SENHOR ama as portas de Sio mais do que as habitaes todas de Jac.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The Lord: Psalms 78:67-69, Psalms 132:13, Psalms 132:14, Deuteronomy 12:5, 2 Chronicles 6:6, Isaiah 14:32, Joel 2:32
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 5:7 - Zion 1 Kings 14:21 - the city 1 Chronicles 11:5 - the castle 2 Chronicles 5:2 - which is Zion Psalms 50:2 - perfection Psalms 68:15 - of God Psalms 78:68 - mount Psalms 84:1 - How Song of Solomon 7:5 - the king Isaiah 4:5 - upon every Ezekiel 7:20 - the beauty Zephaniah 3:11 - because of my holy Haggai 1:8 - and I will take Matthew 5:35 - the city John 4:20 - and ye
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion,.... Which the Targum interprets of the schools, as preferable to the synagogues: the Lord loves Zion herself; that is, the church, and therefore has chosen it for his habitation, took up his rest and residence in it, has founded it, and set Christ as King over it, and by whom he has redeemed it; and he loves her gates, the public ordinances; he loves them that come to Zion's gates, and wait and worship there, and who enter in and become members thereof; and he loves what is done there, he being there publicly prayed unto, and publicly praised by a large number of his people; where his word is faithfully preached, and reverently attended to, and his ordinances truly administered, and the graces of his saints exercised on him: wherefore, because all this is done socially, and in a public manner, and so much for his own manifestative glory, he esteems these
more than all the dwellings of Jacob; the private habitations of his people; yet he has a regard to these, the bounds of which he fixed from eternity, and where he was delighting himself before they were in being; and he loves the persons that dwell in them, and what is done there in a right manner, as closet and family worship; but when these are put in competition with public worship, the latter is preferred unto them, because done by more, and more publicly; Zion and its gates, the church and its ordinances, are preferable to all the dwellings of Jacob put together.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion - Compare Psalms 78:68. The gates of a city were the places of concourse; where business was transacted; where courts were held. The particular allusion here seems to be to the thronging multitudes pressing into the city for public worship - the numbers that gathered together at the great feasts and festivals of the nation; and the meaning is, that he looked with more pleasure on such multitudes as they thronged the gates, pressing in that they might worship him, than on any other scene in the land.
More than all the dwellings of Jacob - Than any of the places where the descendants of Jacob, or where his people dwell. Much as he might be pleased with their quiet abodes, with their peace, prosperity, and order, and with the fact that his worship was daily celebrated in those happy families, yet he had superior pleasure in the multitudes that crowded the ways to the place where they would publicly acknowledge him as their God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 87:2. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. — That is, he preferred Zion for his habitation, to be the place of his temple and sanctuary, before any other place in the promised land. Mystically, the Lord prefers the Christian Church to the Jewish: the latter was only a type of the former; and had no glory by reason of the glory that excelleth. To this position no exception can be made.
