Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 147:4
Verse Psalms 147:4. He telleth the number of the stars] He whose knowledge is so exact as to tell every star in heaven, can be under no difficulty to find out and collect all the scattered exiles of Israel.
Verse Psalms 147:4. He telleth the number of the stars] He whose knowledge is so exact as to tell every star in heaven, can be under no difficulty to find out and collect all the scattered exiles of Israel.
HE TELLETH THE NUMBER OF THE STARS - He counts them all. God only can do this. The stars are so numerous that no astronomer can count them; they lie so far in the depths of space, and are so remote fr...
PSALM 144-150 THE HALLELUJAH CHORUS The five Psalms with which this marvellous book closeth are all Psalms of praise. The word “praise” is found in the Hebrew thirty-seven times. Each one of these Ps...
CXLVII. The LXX, perhaps rightly, divides the Ps. into two, Psalms 147:1 and Psalms 147:12. PSALMS 147:1. An invitation to praise Yahweh for His almighty power and His kindness to Israel. Observe how...
STARS... NAMES. See App-12. Compare Isaiah 40:26. NAMES. The reference is to the knowledge of the "names" in building up the nation of Israel. Compare verses: Psalms 147:2; Psalms 147:20 with...
Praise Jehovah, the restorer of Israel, the sovereign ruler of the world....
An imitation of Isaiah 40:26; Isaiah 40:28. Jehovah's omniscience and omnipotence are partly a ground for praise, partly an encouragement to trust Him. Cp. Psalms 146:6. He who knows each separate sta...
HE TELLETH THE NUMBER OF THE STARS, &C.— i.e. "He as distinctly and exactly knows them, how numerous soever they be, (see Genesis 15:5.) and how confusedly soever they seem to us to be scattered in th...
PSALMS 147 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Praise for the Restoration of Jerusalem and for Israel's Preeminence: with Grateful Recognition of Rain and of Spring. ANALYSIS After the Repetition and Expansion of th...
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. HE TELLETH (OR, LITERALLY, DETERMINES) THE NUMBER OF THE STARS; HE CALLETH THEM ALL BY THEIR NAMES. From earth the Psalmist t...
A song of praise in which the Psalmist recounts God's mercies (1) in restoring Jerusalem, (2) in helping those cast down, (3) in caring for the animal world, and (4) in the changing seasons....
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD’S LOVE AND *POWER PSALMS 147 THE 2ND *HALLELUJAH PSALM Jesus said, "If God makes the grass green (so that it looks right), how much more will
STARS. — This proof of God’s power to help, by reference to the stars of heaven, which are beyond man’s power to count, much more to name, but which the Almighty both numbers and names, seems rather a...
מֹונֶ֣ה מִ֭סְפָּר לַ † כֹּוכָבִ֑ים לְ֝ כֻלָּ֗ם...
Psalms 147:1 THE threefold calls to praise Jehovah (Psalms 147:1, Psalms 147:7, Psalms 147:12) divide this psalm into three parts, the two fo
WHY WE PRAISE THE LORD Psalms 147:1-11 It has been supposed that this psalm was prepared for use when the new walls of the city were completed in the days of Nehemiah. It contains a further enumer...
In this psalm, beginning with a call which declares the pleasantness and comeliness of praise (v. Psa 147:1), the singer first celebrates the Divine activity in restoring His people (vv. Psa 147:2-6)....
He (d) telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by [their] names. (d) Though it seems incredible to man, that God should assemble his Church, being so dispersed, yet nothing can be too ha...
or Hebrew Psalm cxlvii. Ver. 15. _Speech. Rain, (Kimchi) Jesus Christ, (St. Augustine) or the gospel, (St. Hilary; St. Jerome) which was presently propagated over all the earth, Romans x. 18. (Worthin...
I consider this subject spiritually. For the building of Jerusalem is peculiarly the office of Christ. When the Lord promises to lift up an ensign to the people, it evidently refers to Christ. See tho...
_GOD’S BUILDING_ ‘The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number of the stars; He c...
4._Numbering the multitude, etc_. As the gathering together of the people of whom the Psalmist spoke might appear to be an impossibility, there seems some ground for the opinion of those who think tha...
In Psalms 147 the saints take their place now in Jerusalem and Zion to say what He is. He is their God; He builds up Jerusalem and gathers together the outcasts of Israel, healing the broken in heart...
HE TELLETH THE NUMBER OF THE STARS,.... Which no man can do exactly; see Genesis 15:5; the ancient astronomers pretended to tell them, as Aratus and Eudoxus o, and fixed their number at a thousand and...
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by [their] names. Ver. 4. _He telleth the number of the stars_] Which to man is impossible, as Aristotle maintaineth against those astronomers,...
_He telleth the number of the stars_ Which no man can do, for those which astronomers number are only such as are most distinctly visible to the eye, and most considerable for their influences. _He ca...
HALLELUJAH TO THE GOD OF ZION. A Hallelujah Psalm, setting forth God's providential care toward all creatures, but especially toward His people, His holy congregation....
He telleth the number of the stars; He calleth them all by their names, bringing them forth, by creative action, in numbers agreeing with His almighty intention. The connection of thought is, of cours...
1-11 Praising God is work that is its own wages. It is comely; it becomes us as reasonable creatures, much more as people in covenant with God. He gathers outcast sinners by his grace, and will bring...
He telleth the number of the stars, which no man can do, GENESIS 22:17. For those thousand and twenty-five which astrononers number, are only such as are most distinctly visible to the eye, and most c...
Psalms 147:4 counts H4487 (H8802) number H4557 stars H3556 calls H7121 (H8799) name H8034 He -...
Psalms 147:2 The text reveals the constructive side of Divine government: I. As shown in the building up of the Church. That He should do so shows: (1) that the Church is self-demolished; (2) that i...
This is one of the Hallelujah Psalms; it begins and ends with «Praise ye the LORD.» May our hearts be in tune, that we may praise the Lord while we read these words of praise! Psalms 147:1. _Praise y...
Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant;_ Ye that know him, ye that love him, «praise ye the Lord.» «It is good: «it is right, it is accepta...
Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely._ «It is good,» that is to say, it is a thing that ought to be done, it is a r...
This Book of Psalms ends its golden stream in a cataract of praise. The last Psalms are Hallelujah Psalms; this one begins and ends, as several others do, with «Hallelujah.» Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye...
Psalms 147:1. _Praise ye the LORD:_ This Psalm begins and ends with Hallelujah. So may this service, and so may our lives, commence and conclude with Hallelujah! Psalms 147:1. For it is good to sing...
CONTENTS: A call to praise God. The greatness and condescending goodness of the Lord celebrated. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Praise is comely it becomes us as reasonable creatures on account of God...
This psalm, like the preseding, is without title in the Hebrew or Chaldee; but is ascribed by the Versions to Haggai and Zechariah. REFLECTIONS. The people are here exhorted to praise God for all th...
_He telleth the number of the stars._ THE STARS AND THE CROSS As the best, known constellation in our northern hemisphere is _Ursa Major _(sometimes called “the Plough”), so the best known, probably,...
_He healeth the broken in heart._ GOD’S RELATION TO SORROWING SOULS AND TO STARRY SYSTEMS I. His relation to sorrowing souls. “He healeth the broken in heart.” There are broken hearts and wounded so...
_The Lord doth build up Jerusalem._ THE GREATNESS AND GENTLENESS OF GOD The text reveals the constructive side of the Divine government. I. As shown in the building of the Church. 1. “The Lord dot...
_Praise ye the Lord._ GENUINE WORSHIP: - I. The transcendent excellence of true worship (verse 1). 1. It is good. (1) It accords with the constitution of the human soul. (2) It accords with the D...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 147:1. Here the praise is focused on gratitude for some great work of “building up Jerusalem” (or rebuilding it after the exile), and for the Creator who sustains his creati...
INTRODUCTION “Like the last Psalm, and like those which follow it, this is evidently an anthem intended for the service of the Second Temple. It celebrates God’s almighty and gracious rule over His pe...
EXPOSITION This psalm is generally assigned to the time of the dedication of the city wall (Nehemiah 12:27-16), when the gate-towers had been set up, and the gates and bars put in their places (see Ps...
Praise ye the LORD [or hallelujah]: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; it's pleasant; praise is comely [or desirable, beautiful]. The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the ou...
Genesis 15:5; Isaiah 40:26; Psalms 148:3; Psalms 8:3...
Calleth them — He exactly knows them as we do those whom we can call by name....