Psalms 47:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

Psalms 47:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 95:3
For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
Psalms 99:3
Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.
Malachi 1:14
But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
Deuteronomy 7:21
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
Psalms 68:35
O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God God Guidance Lord Majesty Theology Trinity

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

The psalmist, having his own heart filled with great and good thoughts of God, endeavours to engage all about him in the blessed work of praise, as one convinced that God is worthy of all blessing and praise, and as one grieved at his own and others’ backwardness to and barrenness in this work. Observe, in these verses, I. Who are called upon to praise God: “ All you people, all you people of Isra…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2-3. His universal sovereignty now exists, and will be made known.