“Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;”
The extension of divine possession to Gilead and Manasseh indicates the expansion of the territories over which God asserts dominion. The reference to Ephraim and Judah indicates the northern and southern portions of Israel, suggesting that God's claim extends across the entire nation. The reference to Judah as the lawgiver indicates that God establishes proper order and governance through the covenant people. This verse articulates the cosmic breadth of God's sovereignty: the entire land and people are God's possession and responsibility.
Church Fathers on Psalms 60:7
1. David the king was one man, but not one man he figured; sometimes to wit he figured the Church of many men consisting, extended even unto the ends of the earth: but sometimes One Man he figured, Him he figured that is Mediator of God and men, the Man Christ Jesus. 1 Timothy 2:5 In this Psalm therefore, or rather in this Psalm's title, certain victorious actions of David are spoken of:...“To the end, in behalf of those men that shall be changed unto the title's inscription,…
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