Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 68:6
Verse Psalms 68:6. The solitary in families] יחדים yechidim, the single persons. Is not the meaning, God is the Author of marriage; and children, the legal fruit of it, are an inheritance from him?
Verse Psalms 68:6. The solitary in families] יחדים yechidim, the single persons. Is not the meaning, God is the Author of marriage; and children, the legal fruit of it, are an inheritance from him?
GOD SETTETH THE SOLITARY IN FAMILIES - Margin, as in Hebrew, in a house. The word rendered solitary means properly one alone, as an only child; Genesis 22:2, Genesis 22:12, Genesis 22:16; and then it...
Psalms 68 The Great Redemption Accomplished _ 1. The introduction (Psalms 68:1)_ 2. The proclamation of His Name and of ‘His acts (Psalms 68:4) 3. A historic review ...
LXVIII. A SONG OF TRIUMPH. The most difficult of all the Pss. In some places the text is so corrupt that it defies any attempt at emendation, and the VSS give little, if any, help. The historical allu...
SETTETH THE SOLITARY IN FAMILIES. bringeth absent ones home. THE REBELLIOUS. rebellious ones. DWELL. have [ever] dwelt....
God's people are summoned to welcome Him and prepare the way for His coming: He is the champion of the weak and defenceless, the liberator of the captive....
God maketh the solitary to dwell in a house; He bringeth out prisoners into prosperity; But the stubborn dwell In a parched land. The verse describes general principles of God's dealings with men,...
GOD SETTETH THE SOLITARY IN FAMILIES— Literally, _God causeth them to sit down into a family._ The word יחידים _iech-idim,_ rendered _solitary,_ signifies such as are left alone, and destitute of help...
PSALMS 68 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Glimpses of Jehovah's Visible Reign over Israel and the Nations. ANALYSIS (See Headlines insetted in text.) (Lm.) By DavidPsalm Song. (DIVISION ITHE KING: HIS PROWESS...
_GOD SETTETH THE SOLITARY IN FAMILIES: HE BRINGETH OUT THOSE WHICH ARE BOUND WITH CHAINS: BUT THE REBELLIOUS DWELL IN A DRY LAND._ God setteth the solitary - i:e., those destitute of human help (Psal...
68:6 families; (d-6) Or 'maketh the solitary to dwell in a home.' bound (e-10) Or 'prisoners,' as Psalms 69:33 ....
IN FAMILIES] RM 'in a house.' THOSE.. CHAINS] RV 'the prisoners into prosperity': cp. Isaiah 61:1; Psalms 146:7. DWELL IN A DRY (RV 'parched')_land_] like the rebellious Israelites who perished in the...
This is one of the grandest of the Pss., but its origin and date are involved in much obscurity. It contains expressions borrowed from the Blessing of Moses (Deuteronomy 33) and the Song of Deborah (J...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
SOLITARY... — This might refer to the _childless_ (comp. Psalms 113:9), but it is better, in connection with the next clause, to think of the exiles scattered and dispersed, and who are by the Divine...
_[Psalms 68:7]_ אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ מֹ֘ושִׁ֤יב יְחִידִ֨ים ׀ בַּ֗יְתָה מֹוצִ֣יא
Psalms 68:1 THIS superb hymn is unsurpassed, if not unequalled, in grandeur, lyric fire, and sustained rush of triumphant praise. It celebrates a victory; but it is the victory of the God who enters a...
THE LEADER OF HIS PEOPLE Psalms 68:1 This is one of the grandest odes in literature. It was probably composed when the Ark was brought in triumph from the house of Obed-edom to the newly acquired hil...
This psalm sings the praise of the God of deliverances. It opens with a song of pure praise (verses Psa 68:1-6). This is then justified by a review of God's past dealings with His people (verses Psa 6...
God (d) setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a (e) dry [land]. (d) He gives children to those who are childless, and increa...
_My foolishness and my offences; which my enemies impute to me: or the follies and sins of men, which I have taken upon myself. (Challoner) --- My cross is foolishness to the Gentiles, 1 Corinthians i...
Reader, do not fail to observe in what an endearing point of view the church is called upon to triumph in her covenant God. First, in his glorious incommunicable name JAH, self existent, and in himsel...
Psalms 68 follows on these psalms, being the celebration of the introduction of Israel into the position spoken of in them. Still it has a complete and individual character of its own. It begins with...
GOD SETTETH THE SOLITARY IN FAMILIES,.... Which the Jewish writers generally understand of an increase of families, with children in lawful marriage; see Psalms 113:9; an instance of which we have in...
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry [land]. Ver. 6. _God setteth the solitary in families_] _i.e._ He blesseth t...
_A father of the fatherless_ He now proceeds to mention some of the reasons for which God is to be praised. Of these this is one, that he is the patron of such as are injured and oppressed, and have n...
God setteth the solitary in families, the forsaken will have a home given to them, Isaiah 58:7; HE BRINGETH OUT THOSE WHICH ARE BOUND WITH CHAINS, liberating those who are bound, both expressions find...
OF THE MESSIAH'S EXALTATION. To the chief musician, a psalm or song of David, the event which was the immediate cause for writing this powerful hymn, according to most commentators. being the placing...
IN FAMILIES: _ Heb._ in a house...
1-6 None ever hardened his heart against God, and prospered. God is the joy of his people, then let them rejoice when they come before him. He who derives his being from none, but gives being to all,...
SETTETH THE SOLITARY IN FAMILIES; such as were single and solitary he blesseth with a wife and children, as he did Abraham. _Houses_ are oft put for posterity, as EXODUS 1:21 RUTH 4:11 2 SAMUEL 7:11....
Psalms 68:6 God H430 sets H3427 (H8688) solitary H3173 families H1004 out H3318 (H8688) bound H615 prosperity...
Psalms 68:5 It is a beautiful view of the character of the eternal Parent of all His creatures that He fills all the parental relations. "A Father of the fatherless." And His beloved Son well caught...
This was a Psalm sung, at the removing of the ark, when it was taken up to its resting-place on Mount Zion. All the tribes were gathered together, and, in full pomp, they marched along, bearing the sa...
CONTENTS: Prayer against enemies and for God's people. All called upon to praise God for His greatness and goodness. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The glory of Zion's King is that He is a Savi...
This psalm is the _Carmen seculare_ of the Hebrews, and far surpasses the _Te Deum_ of the christians. It has justly been eulogized in the whole succession of theological composition,. The song bursts...
_God setteth the solitary in families._ THE MANIFOLD MERCIES OF GOD--THE FAMILY There is a strong disposition on the part of many now to deny the goodness of God as seen in Creation. A great philosop...
_Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered: let them alone that hate Him flee before Him._ A GOOD PRAYER This was what was always said by Moses, when the ark set forward afresh in the wilderness. E...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 68:1. This is a celebration of God’s continued care and protection. It remembers how God led his people through the wilderness into their inheritance. The celebration does n...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 68:4 The faithful are to SING TO GOD because he has shown himself kind, especially to helpless people (FATHERLESS; WIDOWS, see...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_A Psalm or Song of David_.” See Introduction to Psalms 48. The Superscription does not mention the occasion...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is one of triumphant praise and jubilation, the crown and gem of the Second Book. Professor Cheyne calls it "a patriotic and religious ode of wondrous range and compass, and in t...
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the pre...
1 Samuel 2:5; Acts 12:6; Deuteronomy 28:23; Deuteronomy 28:24;...
Rebellious — Those who rebel against God....