Above all that are called gods, or worshipped as gods by the heathen people. And therefore seeing they commonly praise and extol their idols, it becometh you not to be silent as to the praises of your God.
Verse Psalms 135:5. _THE LORD_ IS _GREAT_] Unlimited in his power: _another_ reason. Is _ABOVE ALL GODS._] Every class of _being_, whether idolized or not; because he is the Fountain of existence. Th...
FOR I KNOW - I, as the representative of Israel, and speaking in the, name of the people. This is said as the foundation or the reason for praise. It was the thorough conviction of the psalmist that G...
PSALM 135-136 Psalms 135 Israel's Knowledge and Praise of the Lord _ 1. Knowing and praising His Name (Psalms 135:1)_ 2. Deliverances of the past remembered (Psalms 135:8) 3. His Name endu
CXXXV. THE ALMIGHTY POWER OF YAHWEH AND HIS FAVOUR TO ISRAEL. This Ps. is largely borrowed. Thus Psalms 135:7 is from Jeremiah 10:13; Jeremiah 10:10 from...
OUR LORD. Adonim. App-4. GODS. Hebrew. _'elohim._ App-4. Used here of earthly rulers (Psalms 82:6), as representing God. See note on Exodus 22:9, and compare Romans 13:1....
_For I know_ A further reason for praising Jehovah. _I_is emphatic. Though the nations are ignorant of it, Israel in whose name the Psalmist speaks, knows the supreme greatness of Jehovah. _above all...
Jehovah's greatness and sovereignty exhibited in Nature....
ABOVE ALL GODS— That is, "Infinitely superior to all those imagined deities which other nations worship as their gods." Mudge renders the first clause, _yes, I myself have experienced that the Lord,_...
PSALMS 135 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Call to Temple-Worship. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 135:1-4, A Charge to the Levites to Lead in the Delightful Duty of Praise. Stanza II., Psalms 135:5-7, A Personal
For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods. FOR I KNOW - from the proofs that He has given in the experience of His people individually and nationally as also in the wo...
A Ps. of praise suitable for public worship, beginning and ending with the liturgical Hallelujah. It is full of rich mosaics illustrating Jehovah's greatness and the vanity of idols. Psalms 134, 135 w...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ A SONG OF *PRAISE TO GOD PSALMS 135 They went out and talked about (Jesus) everywhere (Matthew 9:31
Adapted from Psalms 115:3....
כִּ֤י אֲנִ֣י יָ֭דַעְתִּי כִּי ־גָדֹ֣ול יְהוָ֑ה...
Psalms 135:1 LIKE Psalms 97:1; Psalms 98:1, this is a cento, or piece of mosaic work, apparently intended as a call to worship Jehovah in the Temple. His greatness, as manifested in Nature, and especi...
GOD'S WONDERFUL POWER Psalms 135:1-12 This psalm begins and ends with _Hallelujah._ It contains choice extracts from various psalms, which have been culled as the flowers of a garden are gathered...
After the general movement of this book of the Psalter which has brought us in thought to the ultimate realisation of worship, and before the final psalms of perfected praise, we now have a section (P...
_Understanding. Or Son, who is the uncreated Wisdom, (St. Augustine) or to lead us to the knowledge of him. All has been made by the divine power and wisdom. Cajetan, &c., would assert the heavens to...
The Psalmist here praises the Lord in the contemplation of the blessings of his providence, whose power is absolute, and admits of no control....
5._For I know that Jehovah is great _We have here a general description of the power of God, to show the Israelites that the God they worshipped was the same who made the world, and rules over all acc...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 135 AND 136. Psalms 135 and 136 celebrate Jehovah, who has delivered Israel and now dwells in Jerusalem, and give thanks to Him whose mercy has endured for ever...
FOR I KNOW THAT THE LORD [IS] GREAT,.... Jehovah the Father is great in his perfections; in his power, wisdom, faithfulness, grace, and goodness; and in his works of creation, providence, and grace: a...
For I know that the LORD [is] great, and [that] our Lord [is] above all gods. Ver. 5. _For I know that the Lord is great_] As well as good, Psalms 135:3. This I believe and know, Joh 6:69 saith the p...
_For the Lord hath chosen Jacob_, &c. Here we have a third reason why the Israelites should praise the Lord, namely, “the circumstance of their having been selected from among the nations to be his ch...
THE HALLELUJAH OF THE CONGREGATION AND ITS SERVANTS. A hymn setting forth the wonderful relation of God to His Church, His almighty power over all the world, and His mercy in delivering His people, a...
For I know that the Lord is great, the Possessor of immeasurable greatness, AND THAT OUR LORD, the All-powerful whom we worship as God, IS ABOVE ALL GODS, all those foolishly designated as gods by bli...
5-14 God is, and will be always, the same to his church, a gracious, faithful, wonder-working God. And his church is, and will be, the same to him, a thankful, praising people: thus his name endures f...
Psalms 135:5 know H3045 (H8804) LORD H3068 great H1419 Lord H113 gods H430 I know - Psalms 48:1
Psalms 135:4 I. In the covenant which God made with the Jews, and in the strange events, good and bad, which He caused to happen to their nation, not only the great saints among them were taken care o...
Psalms 135:1. _Praise ye the LORD._ Or, «Hallelujah.» «Hallelujah» is the key-note of it. So this is one of the Hallelujah Psalms, for so it begins; and if you look at the end, you will see that so i...
Key Word: Bless the Lord, Psalms 135:1. CONTENTS: A call to the servants of God to praise Him for His mighty works. CHARACTERS: God, Pharaoh, Sihon, Og, house of Aaron, house of Levi. CONCLUSION: Je...
This psalm is an enlargement on the subject of the preseding psalm. It calls upon the priests, the levites, and all Israel to praise the name of the Lord, on a review of his mercies to their fathers....
_I know that the Lord is great._ A GREAT GOD Right views of God lie at the foundation of all right religion. If our views of God are spiritual, scriptural--if they have a sanctifying tendency in our...
_Praise ye the Lord._ THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF WORSHIP I. In His absolute goodness (Psalms 135:1). He is “good”--essentially, eternally, infinitely, immutably. II. In His relative kindness (verse 4)....
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 135:1. God’s people are called to praise him for his majestic power, displayed in his deeds on their behalf. ⇐
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 135:5 The psalm moves to another reason to praise the Lord: he IS GREAT and IS ABOVE ALL GODS. This means that whatever the LORD pleases,
INTRODUCTION “We have now,” says Hengstenberg, “a group of twelve Psalms, sung after the prosperous completion of the Temple, and probably at its dedication, consisting of three new Psalms at the begi...
EXPOSITION A SONG of praise to God (Psalms 135:1, Psalms 135:19) for: 1. His mercies to Israel (Psalms 135:4,...
Psa 135:1-21 is one of those psalms that begins and ends with the word Hallelujah. Praise ye the LORD (Psalms 135:1). Hallelujah. Praise the name of Yahweh; praise him, O ye servants of Yahweh. Ye t...
Daniel 3:29; Daniel 6:26; Daniel 6:27; Deuteronomy 10:17; Isaiah 40:22