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6The LORD shall count{H8799)}, when he writeth up{H8800)} the people, that this man was born{H8795)} there. Selah.

Psalms 87:6

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  • And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:

  • Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

  • And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

  • And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

  • Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

Commentary

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

(vv. 4-7)

Zion is here compared with other places, and preferred before them; the church of Christ is more glorious and excellent than the nations of the earth. 1. It is owned that other places have their glories (Ps. 87:4): “ I will make mention of Rahab ” (that is, Egypt) “and Babylon, to those that know me and are about me, and with whom I discourse about public affairs; behold Philistia and Tyre, with E…

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