Psalms 45:15
in Psalms 45They are led in with joy and gladness; they enter the palace of the king.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led: They shall enter into the king’s palace.
KJV
With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
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This verse in Psalms 45
Commentary
10 notes on this verseWith gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought. Joy becomes a marriage feast. What joy will that be which will be seen at the feasts of paradise when all the redeemed shall be brought home! Gladness in the saints themselves, and rejoicing from the angels shall make the halls of the New Jerusalem ring again with shoutings. They shall enter into the King's palace. Their peaceful abodes shall be where Jesus the King reigns in state for ever. They shall not be shut out but shut in. Rights of free entrance into the holiest of all shall be accorded them.
This site's exposition
All glorious is the princess
on Psalms 45:13-15
The princess is all glorious in her chamber, her gown embroidered with gold. She is led to the king in colorful garments, her virgin companions with her, and the company enters the palace with joy and gladness. Augustine reads her beauty as given to her.
This site's exposition
with joy and gladness
The procession ends in the king's palace. Barnes saw the bride led with joy to the palace of her husband, and applied it to the church as it will enter heaven. Augustine took the palace as the temple of the King, built of living stones.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought and shall be led into the Temple of the King" (ver. 15). The "Temple of the King" is the Church itself: it is the Church itself that enters into "the Temple of the King." Whereof is that Temple constructed? Of the men who enter the Temple? Who but God's "faithful" ones are its "living stones"? "They shall be led into the Temple of the King." For there are virgins without the Temple of the King, the nuns among the heretics: they are virgins, it is true; but what will that profit them, unless they be led into the "Temple of the King"? The "Temple of the King" is in unity: the "Temple of the King" is not ruinous, is not rent asunder, is not divided. The cement of those living stones is "charity."
The Medieval Church1 voice
"They shall be brought." Here she is commended for her company; and regarding this he does three things. First, he describes her company; second, how one arrives at her company, at "they shall be presented"; third, when this company reaches its destination, at "they shall …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
(1.) This intimates a two-fold bringing of the spouse to Christ. [1.] In the conversion of souls to Christ; then they are espoused to him, privately contracted, as chaste virgins, 2 Cor. xi.
): She shall be brought to the king, as the Lord God brought the woman to the man ( Gen. ii. 22 ), which was a type of this mystical marriage between Christ and his church. None are brought to Christ but whom the Father brings, and he has undertaken to do it; none besides are so brought to the king (
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2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought. Joy becomes a marriage feast. What joy will that be which will be seen at the feasts of paradise when all the redeemed shall be brought home! Gladness in the saints themselves, and rejoicing from the angels shall make the halls of the New Jerusalem ring again with shoutings. They shall enter into the King's palace. Their peaceful abodes shall be where Jesus the King reigns in state for ever. They shall not be shut out but shut in. Rights of free entrance into the holiest of all shall be accorded them. Brought by grace, they shall enter into glory. If there was joy in the bringing, what in the entering? What in the abiding? The glorified are not field labourers in the plains of heaven, but sons who dwell at home, princes of the blood, resident in the royal palace. Happy hour when we shall enjoy all this and forget the sorrows of time in the triumph of eternity.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought - They shall come forth, attending the bride, with music and songs; the procession will be one of hilarity and joy. They shall enter into the king’s palace - That is, Moving from the palace of the royal father of the bride, or from her home, they will enter the palace of her husband, her future home. If this is designed to refer to the church, it is a beautiful description of what will occur when the church redeemed shall enter heaven, the home - the palace - the glorious abode - of the great king its Saviour, and of the joy that will attend its triumphant admission into those everlasting abodes. Compare the notes at Rev. 21.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
All honor [awaits] the King’s daughter who is within, etc. Those who deserve all honor, and they are the nation of the King, who behaved with modesty now their garments will be more esteemed than the settings of gold of the High Priests. משבצוֹת is chatons in French, settings.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 2 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| תּ֭וּבַלְנָה | tuvalnah | they are brought | H2986 → | 18 times |
| בִּשְׂמָחֹ֣ת | bismachot | with joy<s> | H8057 → | 94 times |
| וָגִ֑יל | vagil | and rejoicing | H1524 → | 9 times |
| תְּ֝בֹאֶ֗ינָה | tevoeinah | they go | H935 → | 2568 times |
| בְּהֵ֣יכַל | beheikhal | in [the] palace of | H1964 → | 80 times |
| מֶֽלֶךְ׃ | melekh | [the] king | H4428 → | 2525 times |
תּ֭וּבַלְנָהthey are brought
tuvalnahH2986 →18 times
בִּשְׂמָחֹ֣תwith joy<s>
bismachotH8057 →94 times
וָגִ֑ילand rejoicing
vagilH1524 →9 times
תְּ֝בֹאֶ֗ינָהthey go
tevoeinahH935 →2568 times
בְּהֵ֣יכַלin [the] palace of
beheikhalH1964 →80 times
מֶֽלֶךְ׃[the] king
melekhH4428 →2525 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jude 1:24Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
it leads to
- 2 Timothy 4:18
And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Ephesians 3:20
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
- Colossians 1:22
But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
- John 10:29–30
My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
- Hebrews 13:20–21
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
- 2 Timothy 4:18
Through
Isaiah 61:10I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom…
it leads to
- Revelation 19:7–8
Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.
- Philippians 3:9
and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.
- Psalms 132:9
May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.
- Revelation 19:7–8
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Alexander Maclaren, The Psalms, Expositor's Bible; Augustine, Expositions on the Psalms; Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 45; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Vol. 2; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Exposition on the Psalms of David.
