Psalm 110:6

Verse 6. -- He shall fill the places with the dead bodies. This notes the greatness of the victory, that none should be left to bury the dead. There shall be an universal destruction of wicked men together in the day of God's wrath, they shall be bound up in bundles, and heaped for damnation, Matthew 13:30 ; Psalms 37:38 ; Isaiah 1:28 ; Psalms 66:17 . And it notes the shame and dishonour of the enemy, they shall be like dung upon the face of the earth, and shall be beholden to their victors for a base and dishonourable burial, as we see in the great battle with Gog and Magog, Ezekiel 39:11-16 . --Edward Reynolds.

Verse 6. -- Dead bodies. Either the corpses of the vanquished enemy; or (possibly) the living bodies of men in a state of servitude, as in Genesis 47:18 ; Nehemiah 9:37 . (The construction as in Exodus 15:9 ) In the latter case, the meaning may be: that the bodies of those who had been enslaved by the Usurper, Death, were now claimed back by their rightful Lord. The full number is claimed back. The "last enemy" being destroyed, "all things" are brought beneath Christ's sway. --William Kay.

Verse 6. -- The heads. Rather, the head; doubtless, the head of the Old Serpent (according to the prophecy in Genesis 3:15 ), who acts in all who resist Christ. The verb "machats", which is used here, is employed to describe the prophetical and typical act of Jael, smiting the head of God's enemy, Sisera ( Judges 5:26 4:22); and it is used in Psalms 68:21 , which describes Christ's victory, "God shall wound the head of his enemies"; and also by Habakkuk 3:13 , "Thou woundest the head out of the house of the wicked." --Christopher Wordsworth.

HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS

Verse 6. -- The fearful calamities which have happened to nations through their sinful rejection of the Lord Jesus.