Psalms 98:1
PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.' So in Psalms 99:2. _Between_ the CHERUBIMS] RV 'upon the cherubim': see on Psalms 80:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.' So in Psalms 99:2. _Between_ the CHERUBIMS] RV 'upon the cherubim': see on Psalms 80:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
This Ps. closely resembles Psalms 96, especially in its beginning and ending, and is to be referred to the same occasion. It celebrates a deliverance which God has wrought for Israel in the sight of all the earth (Psalms 98:1), 'summons all men (Psalms 98:4), and all nature (Psalms 98:7) to praise H... [ Continue Reading ]
HEATHEN] RV 'nations.' ZION] The Temple at Jerusalem is God's dwelling and the seat of His rule.... [ Continue Reading ]
_For_ IT _is_ HOLY] RV 'holy is he.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THE KING] God: see Psalms 80:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
A PSALM] RV 'melody': see Isaiah 51:3. HIS FOOTSTOOL] The ark is so called in 1 Chronicles 28:2, but if this Ps. was written after the exile the ark cannot be directly referred to here. The language may be a survival of an earlier usage. _For_ HE _is_ HOLY] RV 'holy is he,' as in Psalms 99:3. 6-8... [ Continue Reading ]
Both in the past and in the Psalmist's time God has shown at once His hatred of sin and His forgiving love to His people. INVENTIONS] RV 'doings.'... [ Continue Reading ]
PEOPLE] RV 'peoples': see Psalms 96:13. This Ps. is like the preceding ones in the prominence it gives to God's Kingship, and no doubt belongs to the same period with them. God's holiness, too, is emphasised in the refrain of Psalms 99:3; Psalms 99:5; Psalms 99:9. The Ps. begins with a call to worsh... [ Continue Reading ]