Psa 72:2, 96:13, 98:9, Jer 48:47, Rom 11:12 | JFB | e4.org | 2, &c. The effects of such a government by one thus endowed are detailed. thy people . . . and thy poor —or, "meek," the pious subjects of his government.

‏ Psalms 72:2

2, &c. The effects of such a government by one thus endowed are detailed.

thy people . . . and thy poor—or, "meek," the pious subjects of his government.

‏ Psalms 96:13

11-13. For which reason the universe is invoked to unite in joy, and even inanimate nature (Ro 8:14-22) is poetically represented as capable of joining in the anthem of praise.

‏ Psalms 98:9

‏ Jeremiah 48:47

47. Restoration promised to Moab, for the sake of righteous Lot, their progenitor (Ge 19:37; Ex 20:6; Ps 89:30-33). Compare as to Egypt, Jer 46:26; Ammon, Jer 49:6; Elam, Jer 49:39. Gospel blessings, temporal and spiritual, to the Gentiles in the last days, are intended.

‏ Romans 11:12

12. Now if the fall of them—"But if their trespass," or "false step"

be the riches of the—Gentile

world—as being the occasion of their accession to Christ.

and the diminishing of them—that is, the reduction of the true Israel to so small a remnant.

the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness!—that is, their full recovery (see on Ro 11:26); that is, "If an event so untoward as Israel's fall was the occasion of such unspeakable good to the Gentile world, of how much greater good may we expect an event so blessed as their full recovery to be productive?"