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Verse Psalms 101:3. _I WILL SET NO WICKED THING BEFORE MINE EYES_] I
will undertake no unjust wars; will enter into no sinful alliances;
will not oppress my subjects by excessive taxation, to support...
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I WILL SET NO WICKED THING BEFORE MINE EYES - That is, I will propose
no wicked thing to be done; I will have no such object in view; I will
employ no one to do that which is wrong. The margin, as the...
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PSALM 101-106
Psalms 101
The Righteous King Speaketh
_ 1. The character of the King (Psalms 101:1)_
2. His righteous demands of His subjects (Psalms 101:4)
A Psalm of David. He speaks as kin
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CI. THE IDEAL RULER. The main purport is clear. The ideal ruler is
faithful to the high standard which he sets before himself (Psalms
101:2_ b_ - Psalms 101:4). He requires (Psalms 101:5) the same str...
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WICKED THING. thing of Belial.
HATE. have always hated.
THE WORK: i.e. the doings, or business....
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DISCOURSE: 669
INTEGRITY
Psalms 101:3. _I hate the work of them that turn aside: it shall not
cleave to me_.
TO improve our influence for God, is our bounden duty, whatever be the
station to which he...
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I WILL SET NO WICKED THING BEFORE MINE EYES— Pleasure or
displeasure, approbation or abhorrence, may be known by the look or
cast of the eye. What we are pleased and delighted with, attracts and
fixes...
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PSALMS 101
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
A King's Resolve to have a pure House and Court and Royal City.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 101:1-2 a, The Theme of Song Announced and Applied
to the Conduct becoming, a...
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I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them
that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
I WILL SET NO WICKED THING BEFORE MINE EYES - literally, 'no thing of
Belial' (Psal...
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101:3 aside; (g-19) Elsewhere also 'apostates,' see Hosea 5:2 ....
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This Ps. is the prayer of a ruler, apparently of a king. Many scholars
believe that the title which ascribes its authorship to David is
correct, and connect it with David's desire to have the ark brou...
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Psalms 90:106
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
THE KING’S SONG
PSALMS 101
Jesus said, "First look for the place where God is king. Do the good
things that he does". ...
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I WILL SET NO..... — Mark the wisdom of the
resolve in a despotic monarch, who has only to speak to effect
whatever he has looked on with desire.
WICKED THING. — _Thing_ (_or, word_)_ of Belial._ (S...
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לֹֽא ־אָשִׁ֨ית ׀ לְ נֶ֥גֶד עֵינַ֗י
דְּֽבַר ־ב
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Psalms 101:1
THE contents of this psalm go far towards confirming the correctness
of the superscription in ascribing it to David, as Ewald acknowledges.
To call it an ideal description of a Jewish kin...
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MY RIGHTEOUS PURPOSE
Psalms 101:1
This psalm, as the title indicates, was composed by David, probably at
the commencement of his reign. It contains a number of resolutions
upon which he was prepared...
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A fine sense of the fitness of things is exhibited by the editor of
the psalter in placing this psalm here. Following immediately upon the
songs of the enthroned Jehovah, in which there has been perpe...
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I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate (c) the work of
them that turn aside; [it] shall not cleave to me.
(c) He shows that magistrates do not do their duties, unless they are
enemies to...
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Nothing can be more beautiful, considered as descriptive of the person
and work of Jesus, in the days of his flesh, than what is here said.
But such views of perfection, as they are nowhere to be foun...
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3_I will not set a wicked thing before my eyes _After having
protested, that in leading a private life, he would practice virtue
and righteousness, even as it becomes good princes to begin with this,...
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Psalms 101 states the principles on which the King will govern His
house and the land when He takes the kingdom in the name of Jehovah.
Psalms 93 is the thesis, Jehovah reigns: the rage of men, the su...
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I WILL SET NO WICKED THING BEFORE MINE EYES, Either the eyes of the
body, which are the inlets of lust and are easily caught with objects
that inflame the heart, and should be turned aside from behold...
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I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them
that turn aside; [it] shall not cleave to me.
Ver. 3. I will set no wicked thing (Heb. thing of Belial) before mine
eyes] That is,...
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_I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes_ Namely, to look upon it
with approbation, or design to practise, countenance, or tolerate it.
If any ungodly or unjust thing be suggested to me, whatsoeve...
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I will set no wicked thing, no worthless and vile matter, BEFORE MINE
EYES, opposite his eyes, as in the act of pleased contemplation I HATE
THE WORK OF THEM THAT TURN ASIDE, the committing of transgr...
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THE PRINCIPLES OF RIGHT GOVERNMENT.
A psalm of David, in which he set forth the guiding rules of his life,
especially those of his reign, showing, at the same time, his
appreciation of God's mercy to...
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WICKED THING:
_ Heb._ thing of Belial...
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BEFORE MINE EYES, to wit, to look upon it with deliberation and
design, or with desire and delight, as this phrase here and elsewhere
implies. If any ungodly or unjust thing shall be suggested to me,...
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Psalms 101:3 set H7896 (H8799) nothing H1697 wicked H1100 eyes H5869
hate H8130 (H8804) work H6213 ...
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Psalms 101:1. The last Psalm was a Hymn of Thanksgiving, this one is a
Psalm of Thanksgiving. I suppose it to have been written by David just
when he assumed the throne, when he was about to become ki...
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CONTENTS: David's vow to God when he took upon him the charge of the
kingdom.
CHARACTERS: God, David.
CONCLUSION: The believer should resolve to walk by the rules of
Christian prudence and in the wa...
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TITLE. _A psalm of David._ All the Versions agree with the Hebrew in
this title.
Psalms 101:3. _I hate the work of them that turn aside;_ a Hebrew
phrase for apostasy to idolatry. Instead of going up...
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I will sing of mercy and judgment.
ONE MAN IN TWO CHARACTERS
This psalm depicts one man in two characters, one comparatively good,
the other comparatively evil. Such a man is a fair type of the race...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 101:1. This is a royal psalm about the
place of the Davidic monarchy in God’s plan for his people. It
explains for David and his heirs the ideal kind of ruler they should
be...
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INTRODUCTION
According to the superscription, this Psalm was composed by David.
Three different times in his life have been suggested as the occasion
to which the Psalm refers. First, when, upon the d...
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EXPOSITION
Tins psalm describes the rightful conduct and proper principles of
action of an Israelite king. It is regarded by some as a portrait of
an ideal ruler, dramatically put into his mouth; by o...
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This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Psalms 101:1-8; Psalms
101:1-8 is a psalm of David, and David declares in the first verse,
I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing
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1 John 2:19; 1 Kings 21:13; 1 Kings 21:2; 1 Samuel 12:20; 1 Samu