Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
David, newly settled on the throne with signal victories behind him, pours out this psalm to express his gratitude to God and to unite the fractious community by showing them that God had chosen him as king. His prayers throughout call upon God to perfect what He had begun.
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Commenting on Psalm 60:1-12
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. He claims the whole land on account of the promise. Two other great divisions of the country he mentions, evidently delighting to survey the goodly land which the Lord had given him. All things are ours, whether things present or things to come; no mean portion belongs to the believer, and let him not think meanly of it.
God has spoken His promise in holiness, and that word is the full fountain of joy to all who believe it. Take comfort now in what He has sworn to give, as surely as if you already possessed it. When God speaks, pardon is yours, peace is yours, grace is yours, Christ is yours, heaven itself is yours.
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Commenting on Psalm 60:6-12