--- title: "Psalms 82 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read Psalms 82 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Sela" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/psalms/82" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/82)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/82)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/82) Audio 1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.* 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.* 4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid *them* out of the hand of the wicked. 5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.* 6 I have said, Ye *are* gods; and all of you *are* children of the most High. 7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations. [Psalms 81](/study/psalms/81) [Psalms 83](/study/psalms/83) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Psalms 82:0](/kjv/psalms/82/0). *The Psalmist, having exhorted the judges, and reproved their negligence, prayeth God to judge.* A Psalm of Asaph. ***Title.*****ףּלאס********מזמור*********mizmor leasaph*****—** This psalm is an admonition to justice, and an upbraiding reproof against the injustice of the Jewish tribunals; with an appeal to God, the supreme and just judge. The courts of justice in Hezekiah's reign were very corrupt: see Isa 1:23 where the judges and magistrates are called *princes,*in respect of their superiority over the common people; and here they are called gods, in respect to the fountain of their power, which was from the Most High. In this view the psalm conveys an useful admonition to all ministers of justice; from the supreme judge of the highest earthly tribunal, down to the most inferior and petty magistrate. ***[Psalms 82:1](/kjv/psalms/82/1)*****.*****God standeth in the congregation of the mighty*****—** *God presideth in his courts of justice.*Hebrew, *In the court of justice of God.*But the singular seems to be used here collectively for all the courts of justice in the land. See [Psalms 82:5](/kjv/psalms/82/5). The courts of justice were God's, as the judges were his vice-gerents; the charge given them being, *Take heed what ye do; for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord; who is present with you in the* *judgment.*[2 Chronicles 19:6](/kjv/2-chronicles/19/6). It is plain from Num 15:33 that the word עדה *eidah,*rendered *congregation,*signifies, properly, a court of justice; to which sense the turn and drift of the psalm immediately leads. Respecting the word אלהים *elohim,*or *gods,*which signifies *judges,*in this place, see Green, and [Exodus 21:6](/kjv/exodus/21/6). ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/psalms/82#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/psalms/82#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/psalms/82","name":"Psalms 82 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/psalms/82#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read Psalms 82 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods. 2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? 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