Psa 58:1-2, 82:1-2, 94:20, Pro 28:1, Act 16:20-24, 22:25-28 | TSK | STEP | David reproves wicked judges; describes the nature of the wicked; devotes them to God's judgments; whereat the righteous shall rejoice. (Title.) {Al-taschith.} or, Destroy not. A golden Psalm. Do. O congregation. O ye.

A.M. 3108. B.C. 896. (Title.) A Psalm.Some refer this psalm to the time of David, and others to that of Hezekiah; but it is more probable that it was composed when Jehoshaphat reformed the courts throughout his kingdom.

2Ch 19:6,7

of Asaph. or, for Asaph.

God, etc.Or, "God standeth in the assembly of God, {ail,} he judgeth among the judges." {Elohim:} God is among His own people; and presides especially in those courts of justice which Himself has established.

Ex 18:21; 2Ch 19:6,7; Ec 5:8

the gods.

6,7; 138:1; Ex 21:6; 22:28; Joh 10:35

How.

62:3; Ex 10:3; 1Ki 18:21; Mt 17:17

judge.

58:1,2; Ex 23:6,7; Le 19:15; Mic 3:1-3,9-12

accept.

De 1:17; 2Ch 19:7; Job 34:19; Pr 18:5; Ga 2:6

Psalms 94:20

throne.

52:1; 82:1; 1Sa 22:12; Ec 3:16; 5:8; Am 6:3

fellowship.

2Ch 6:14-16; Isa 1:11-20; Jer 7:4-11; Joh 18:28; 1Jo 1:5,6

frameth.

58:2; 1Ki 12:32; Es 3:6-12; Isa 10:1; Da 3:4-7; 6:7-9; Mic 6:16

Joh 9:22; 11:57; Re 13:15-17

Proverbs 28:1

1 General observations of impiety and religious integrity.

wicked.

Le 26:17,36; De 28:7,25; 2Ki 7:6,7,15; Ps 53:5; Isa 7:2; Jer 20:4

the righteous.

Ex 11:8; Ps 27:1,2; 46:2,3; 112:7; Isa 26:3,4; Da 3:16-18; 6:10,11

Ac 4:13; 14:3; 1Th 2:2

Acts 16:20-24

being.

18:2; 19:34; Ezr 4:12-15; Es 3:8,9

do.

17:6-8; 28:22; 1Ki 18:17,18; Mt 2:3; Joh 15:18-20; Ro 12:2; Jas 4:4

26:3; Jer 10:3

the multitude.

17:5; 18:12; 19:28-41; 21:30,31; 22:22,23

the magistrates.

37; 5:40; 22:24-26; Mt 10:17; 27:26; 2Co 6:5; 11:23-25; 1Th 2:2

Heb 11:36; 1Pe 2:24

they cast.

5:18; 8:3; 9:2; 12:4; Lu 21:12; Eph 3:1; 4:1; 2Ti 2:9; Phm 1:9; Re 1:9

Re 2:10

to keep.

5:23; 12:18; 1Sa 23:22,23; Mt 26:48; 27:63-66

the inner.

1Ki 22:27; Jer 37:15,16; 38:26; La 3:53-55

and made.

2Ch 16:10; *Heb:

Job 13:27; 33:11; Ps 105:18; Jer 20:2; 29:26

Acts 22:25-28

the centurion.

10:1; 23:17; 27:1,3,43; Mt 8:8; 27:54

Is it.By the Roman law, no magistrate was allowed to punish a Roman citizen capitally, or by inflicting stripes, or even binding him; and the single expression, I am a Roman citizen, arrested their severest decrees, and obtained, if not an escape, at least a delay of his punishment.

27,28; 16:37; 25:16

Take.

29; 23:27

But.It is extremely probable that the inhabitants of Tarsus, born in that city, had the same rights and privileges as Roman citizens, in consequence of a grant or charter from Julius Cæsar, from whom it was called Juliopolis. But if this were not the case, St. Paul's father, or some of his ancestors, might have been rewarded with the freedom of the city of Rome, for his fidelity and bravery in some military service, as Josephus says several of the Jews were; or his father might have obtained it by purchase, as in the instance of the chief captain.