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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Psalms 28:2

Verse Psalms 28:2. Toward thy holy oracle.] דביר קדשך debir kodshecha; debir properly means that place in the holy of holies from which God gave oracular answers to the high priest. This is a presumptive proof that there was a temple now standing; and the custom of stretching out the hands in prayer towards the temple, when the Jews were at a distance from it, is here referred to.

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See also Psalms 28:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HEAR THE VOICE OF MY SUPPLICATIONS - It was not mental prayer which he offered; it was a petition uttered audibly. WHEN I LIFT UP MY HANDS - To lift up the hands denotes supplication, as this was a c...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 28 Prayer For Judgment and Praise For the Answer _ 1. Prayer for judgment (Psalms 28:1)_ 2. Praise for the answer (Psalms 28:6)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XXVIII. Prayer for deliverance from godless Jews, and for vengeance upon them. The Ps. ends with thanksgiving and prayer for ruler and people. Psalms 28:2. Read _mg._ Psalms 28:4. Yahweh's anointed...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LIFT UP MY HANDS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for praying. HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. ORACLE. speaking place. Occurs only here in Psalms. See note on 2 Samuel 16:23....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Introductory appeal for a hearing, emphasising the urgency of the need....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The first line recurs in Psalms 31:22. _when I cry_ A stronger word than that in Psalms 28:1, meaning to _cry for help_. _when I lift up my hands_ The attitude of prayer (Psalms 63:4;...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 28 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayer Turned into Praise. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 28:1-2, Prayer Boldly Pleads the Feared Result of Refusal to Answer. Stanza II., Psalms 28:3-4 (with addition,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _HEAR THE VOICE OF MY SUPPLICATIONS WHEN I CRY UNTO THEE WHEN I LIFT UP MY HANDS TOWARD THY HOLY ORACLE_ _ HEAR THE VOICE OF MY SUPPLICATIONS, WHEN I CRY UNTO THEE, WHEN I LIFT UP MY HANDS TOWARD THY...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This Ps. is in many respects similar to Psalms 26, especially in the writer's prayer that he may be distinguished from the wicked, and may escape their fate; and in the confidence which he reaches in...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THY HOLY ORACLE] RM 'the innermost place of thy sanctuary,' the Holy of Holies, where God's Presence specially dwells. Here, as in Psalms 26, the existence of the Temple seems to be indicated....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LIFT UP MY HANDS. — For interesting illustrations of this Oriental custom see Exodus 9:29; 1 Kings 8:22, &c. Compare the well-known line: — “If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer.” TENNYSON...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שְׁמַ֤ע קֹ֣ול תַּ֭חֲנוּנַי בְּ שַׁוְּעִ֣י אֵלֶ֑יךָ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 28:1 THE unquestionable resemblances to Psalms 26:1 scarcely require that this should be considered its companion. The differences are as obvious as the likenesses. While the prayer "Draw me no...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A PRAYER AND ITS ANSWER Psalms 28:1 This psalm also probably belongs to the time of Absalom's rebellion. Psalms 28:2 resemble Psalms 26:8. God is silent sometimes because He loves us unspeakably,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The affinity between this psalm and the previous one is evident and its placing by the editor here was in all likelihood due to that fact. In Psalms 27:1, in true order, praise prepares for, and issue...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy (b) holy oracle. (b) He counts himself as a dead man, till God shows his favour toward him, and grants him...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Honour. Hebrew, "strength," which we must acknowledge. (Haydock) --- The first design of sacrifice is to adore God in spirit. (Worthington) --- Holy court. Hebrew, "in the holy beauty," 1 Paralipomen...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here also, as in numberless other instances, with an eye to Jesus, we have a lovely example, how to tell the Rock of our Salvation what our confidence is; and how to supplicate all suited grace, when...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._Hear the voice of my prayers when I cry to thee. _This repetition is a sign of a heart in anguish. David’s ardor and vehemence in prayer are also intimated by the noun signifying _voice, _and the v...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 28. The godly Jew pleads, in the time of trouble come on the nation, that he may not be confounded with the wicked. If Jehovah did not appear in his behalf, so much was he in the same distress...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HEAR THE VOICE OF MY SUPPLICATIONS,.... Which proceed from the Spirit of grace and of supplication, and are put up in an humble manner, under a sense of wants and unworthiness, and on the foot of grac...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. Ver. 2. _When I lift up my hands_] An ordinary gesture in prayer, expressing faith (for they...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle_ Earnestly desiring and confidently expecting an answer of peace from thence. The most holy place within the veil is here, as elsewhere, called the _ora...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Hear the voice of my supplications, of his loud, and earnest entreaty, WHEN I CRY UNTO THEE, WHEN I LIFT UP MY HANDS, in a gesture of urgent pleading, TOWARD THY HOLY ORACLE, literally, "throne-hall,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PRAYER AND COMFORT IN TIMES OF REBELLION. A psalm of David, written in similar circumstances as the two foregoing ones, his heart apparently being so full that his mouth was bound to speak, David in...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TOWARD THY HOLY ORACLE: Or, towards the Oracle of thy Sanctuary...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 David is very earnest in prayer. Observe his faith in prayer; God is my rock, on whom I build my hope. Believers should not rest till they have received some token that their prayers are heard. H...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i.e. Towards the holy of holies, which is so called, 1 KINGS 6:23, compared with 2 CHRONICLES 3:10: compare also 1 Kings 6:5, 1 Kings 8:6

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 28:2 Hear H8085 (H8798) voice H6963 supplications H8469 cry H7768 (H8763) up H5375 (H8800) hands...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PSALMIST EARNESTLY CALLS ON GOD TO HEAR HIS PRAYER (PSALMS 28:1). In each of these two verses the ideas fall into an abbc pattern, with each central idea then being repeated in another form. Note...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 28:1. _Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock: be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit._ Oh! if God did not hear prayer, we should become...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prayer for deliverance from enemies and testimony as to answered prayer. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The Lord is our strength to support us in either service or suffering, as well...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Psalms 28:5. _He shall destroy them, and not build them up._ David often foresaw that Saul's army and party would perish in war. This prayer, Psalms 28:4, is in unison with the forms of prayer used in...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Unto Thee will I cry, O Lord my Rock._ THE PRAYER OF A SAINT IN DISTRESS I. He prays that God would graciously hear and answer him now that, in his distress, he called upon him (Psalms 28:1). Obser...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 28:1. This is a lament, a cry for help during the threat posed by evildoers. The threat is probably to the whole community (vv. Psalms 28:8),

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 28:2 MOST HOLY SANCTUARY. This is the “innermost sanctuary” (see esv footnote), the place mentioned in 1 Kings 6:16.

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION Hitsig and others have assigned this psalm to Jeremiah, but there does not seem to be thy sufficient reason for questioning the traditional title which gives it to David. It may have been...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This short psalm consists of three parts: (1) a prayer for succour (Psalms 28:1, Psalms 28:2); (2) a denunciation of the wicked (Psalms 28:3); and (3

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent, I become like those that have gone down into the pit. Hear my voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 6:19; 1 Kings 6:22; 1 Kings 6:23; 1 Kings 8:28; 1 Kings 8:38;

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Towards — Towards the holy of holies, because there the ark was; from whence God gave oracular answers to his people....

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