Psalm 45:8

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Verse 8. Ivory palaces. Either edifices 1 Kings 22:39 Song of Solomon 7:14 , or ivory coffers, and wardrobes, whence those garments were taken, and are kept. Westminster Assembly's Annotations.

Verse 8. Whereby they have made thee glad. The best sense of the phrase -- from which they rejoice thee -- is had by making they refer to the king's daughters mentioned in the next verse. William S. Plumer.

Verse 8. Gesenius and Delitzsch consider (ynm) an abbreviated form of the plural (~ynm) Ps 105:4, "strings," or "stringed instruments," and would render thus: -- "Thee glad out of the ivory palaces stringed instruments have made." Dalman Hapstone. (With this rendering Ewald and Lange agree.) J. L. K.

 

HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS

Verse 8. Christ's garments -- his offices, his two natures, his ordinances, his honours, all are full of fragrance.

Verse 8. Whereby they have made thee glad. We make Jesus glad by our love, our praise, our service, our gifts, our holiness, our fellowship with him.

Verse 8.