Psalms 48:4
2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
3 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For behold, the kings assembled; they all advanced together.
- KJV
- For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
- WEB
- For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.
- ASV
- For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, They passed by together.
- DARBY
- For behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together;
- BLB
- For behold, the kings assembled; they passed over together.
- ÅB
- For se, kongene samlet seg, de dro fram tilsammen.
- OTB
- Se, kongene samlet seg,
De rykket frem sammen. - B1930
- For se, kongene samlet sig, de drog frem tilsammen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Revelation 20:8–9
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Read in context2 Samuel 10:6–19
And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men.
Read in contextRevelation 17:12–14
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
Read in contextIsaiah 7:1
And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
Read in contextIsaiah 29:5–8
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:8
For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
Read in contextRevelation 19:20
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Read in contextIsaiah 8:8–10
And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
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