_An exhortation to praise God, and to seek out his works. The history of God's providence over Abraham, over Joseph, over Jacob in Egypt, over Moses delivering the Israelites, over the Israelites brought out of Egypt, fed in the wilderness, and planted in Canaan._ IT appears from 1 Chronicles 16:8 t... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THERE WERE BUT A FEW MEN IN NUMBER— It is literally _men of number;_ so few as easily to be numbered; in opposition to what their posterity afterwards were, _as the sand of the sea without number._ See Horace, Ars Poet. ver. 206. POPULUS NUMERABILIS, UTPOTE PARVUS, &C. _THEY MIGHT WITH EASE BE... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTIL THE TIME, &C.— _Until the time that his saying came to pass, the word of the Lord purged him._ Green renders it, _Until the time that his prediction had come to pass, and the word of the Lord had cleared him._ See Genesis 41:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO BIND HIS PRINCES, &C.— _To command his princes at his pleasure, and to judge his senators._ The Vulgate, LXX, and Arabic, read, _That he might instruct his princes like himself, and teach,_ &c. See Wall on the place.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY REBELLED NOT AGAINST HIS WORD— _Yet they were not obedient to his word._ So the LXX and Syriac read; and thus it is rendered in the Liturgy of the Church of England. But Houbigant, thinking the present reading genuine, renders it, _and his words were not changed; i.e._ "what he had commande... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY RAN IN THE DRY PLACES LIKE A RIVER— Or, _They went along, a river, in dry places._ Or, _Rivers flowed down through dry places._ Green.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS HOLY PROMISE, AND ABRAHAM— _The word of his holiness with Abraham._ See Psalms 105:8. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Before the Psalmist enters on his subject, he prefaces his discourse with an exhortation to all around him, 1. To exalt and magnify the great and glorious God, and this in a variety of ways.... [ Continue Reading ]