Verse 15
15. The hill of God A Hebraistic superlative for most excellent of its kind. The psalmist turns to the central thought of the psalm, which he strikes in the next verse the hill Zion, which God has chosen to dwell in. As a mountain, physically, it cannot be compared with many others, but in historic association it transcends all and awakens the envy of all.
Bashan The district of Bashan, mainly identical with the ancient kingdom of Og, lay east of the Jordan, and extended from the Jabbok to Hermon. Deuteronomy 3:8; Joshua 12:4-5. But the “hill of Bashan” is nowhere mentioned, and as it is here spoken of as chief of the mountains, it is probable that either Hermon or the whole range of Gilead is intended.
High hill Hebrew, Mountain of heights. The relative height of mountains is the point of comparison, and Hermon was the loftiest of all.
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