| Geneva Study Bible <or Song for the sons of Korah.>> His {a} foundation is in the holy mountains. (a) God chose that place among the hills to establish Jerusalem and his temple. Wesley's Notes 87:1 Its foundation - The foundation of the temple of God. King James Translators' Notes for the sons: or, of the sons Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary PSALM 87 Ps 87:1-7. This triumphal song was probably occasioned by the same event as the forty-sixth [see on [618]Ps 46:1, title]. The writer celebrates the glory of the Church, as the means of spiritual blessing to the nation. 1. His-that is, God's foundation-or, what He has founded, that is, Zion (Isa 14:32). is in the holy mountains-the location of Zion, in the wide sense, for the capital, or Jerusalem, being on several hills. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 87:1-3 Christ himself is the Foundation of the church, which God has laid. Holiness is the strength and firmness of the church. Let us not be ashamed of the church of Christ in its meanest condition, nor of those that belong to it, since such glorious things are spoken of it. Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, even Jesus Christ. The glorious things spoken of Zion by the Spirit, were all typical of Christ, and his work and offices; of the gospel church, its privileges and members; of heaven, its glory and perfect happiness. | 
