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THE LORD SHALL INCREASE YOU MORE AND MORE - He will increase your
numbers and your power. We may suppose that the people were greatly
diminished by the captivity, and that on their return to their cou...
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Psalms 115
Who Their God is?
_ 1. Israel's God (Psalms 115:1)_
2. In Contrast with Idols (Psalms 115:4)
3. O Israel Trust in the Lord (Psalms 115:9)
Here Israel acknowledges her Saviour-Lord, unt...
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CXV. THE BLINDNESS OF IDOLATRY AND THE VIRTUE OF UTTER TRUST IN
YAHWEH.
Psalms 115:2 f. An invisible god was unintelligible to the average
heathen; he believed that the god was specially present in t...
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CHILDREN. sons....
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THE LORD SHALL INCREASE YOU— _The Lord will heap blessings upon
you._ Here the author turns himself to them, and assures them of the
favour of him who made heaven and earth; who therefore would preser...
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PSALMS 115
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
Not for Her Own Glory but for His, Israel moves herself to trust in
Jehovah to Shew his Superiority over Idols.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 115:1-3, Introductory appeal...
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The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
THE LORD SHALL INCREASE YOU MORE AND MORE, YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN -
(.) The Hebrew is literally, 'The Lord shall add upon you, upon...
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In LXX 114, 115 are one Ps., while 116 is divided into two. Apparently
Psalms 115 was written to be sung antiphonally: cp. the responses in
Psalms 115:9; Psalms 115:11—the first eight and the last thr...
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Psalms 107:150
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD
PSALMS 115
Jesus said, "Pray like this: Our Father, you are in *heaven. Your
name is special. You are king (over everyone). What you...
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THE LORD SHALL INCREASE. — More literally,
“Jehovah shall heap blessings on you,
On you and on your children.”...
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יֹסֵ֣ף יְהוָ֣ה עֲלֵיכֶ֑ם עֲ֝לֵיכֶ֗ם
וְ עַל ־בְּנֵיכֶֽם׃...
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Psalms 115:1
ISRAEL is in straits from heathen enemies, and cries to Jehovah to
vindicate His own Name by delivering it. Strengthened by faith, which
has been stung into action by taunts aimed at both...
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POWERLESS IDOLS; OUR POWERFUL GOD
Psalms 115:1
Evidently this psalm was intended to be sung by various voices: Psalms
115:1 by the whole congregation in unison, while the sacrifice was
being offered...
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This third psalm in the Hallel is born of passion for the glory of the
name of Jehovah. That is its opening note, and all that follows must
be explained thereby. The singer's distress is heard in the...
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All blessings are in the person of the Lord Jesus; and they are
secured to his people in his finished salvation. So ran the original
charter of grace. Genesis 12:3. Hence; that sweet promise, Isaiah
4...
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Psalms 115 gives the true and full ground of this deliverance as seen
in the heart of faith. It is not that they, but that Jehovah may be
praised, specially in His mercy, and then His faithfulness to...
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THE LORD SHALL INCREASE YOU MORE AND MORE,.... The Word of the Lord,
as the Targum, shall do it; in a temporal sense, with a numerous
posterity, with riches, wealth, and honour; and in a spiritual sen...
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The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
Ver. 14. _The Lord shall increase you_] Or, the Lord increase you
(_detach tephilla,_ prayer wise), as the Rabbis read it.
_ You and...
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_The Lord shall increase you more and more_ In number, power, and in
all temporal and spiritual blessings, notwithstanding the efforts of
your many enemies to diminish, weaken, and distress you. Hebre...
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VINDICATION OF GOD'S GLORY OVER AGAINST THE IDOLS.
This psalm may have been a cry of Israel for the assistance of the
Lord in the face of invading enemies, who placed their confidence in
their heathe...
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9-18 It is folly to trust in dead images, but it is wisdom to trust
in the living God, for he is a help and a shield to those that trust
in him. Wherever there is right fear of God, there may be chee...
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SHALL INCREASE YOU in number, notwithstanding all the attempts of your
enemies to diminish and destroy you. Or, _shall add to you_, to wit,
further and greater blessings....
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Psalms 115:14 LORD H3068 increase H3254 (H8686) children H1121
Lord - Genesis 13:16; 2 Samuel 24:3; Isaiah 2:2-3, Isaiah 27:6, Isaiah
19:20-21, Isaiah 56:8,...
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Psalms 115:1. _Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name
give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake. Wherefore should
the heathen say, Where is now their God? But our God is in the...
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CONTENTS: Indignation against the makers and worshippers of idols and
exhortation to trust in God.
CHARACTERS: God, house of Aaron, Psalmist.
CONCLUSION: The creatures of men's vain imaginations and...
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Whether this psalm was written after some victory, or after the
removal of any calamity which had caused the heathen to boast, is not
certain. But blessings of this kind, though they justly demand pra...
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_Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name give glory._
GENUINE RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS
I. A consciousness of God’s greatness leading to a contempt for all
idols.
1. The majesty of God....
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 115:1. This is a hymn urging God’s
people to trust and worship the Lord alone. He alone is worthy of
their deepest loyalty. There is always the temptation to turn to the
god...
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INTRODUCTION
1. Date and authorship uncertain. Has been ascribed to the immediate
post _exilie_ psalmists, and to the poets of the time of the
Maccabees.
2. Characteristics. Allusion to or quotation...
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EXPOSITION
A LITURGICAL psalm, in which a divided choir, together with a
leader—a priest or precentor—take separate parts. The occasion is
one of danger (Psalms 115:2), but, at the same time, of confi...
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Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but to thy name give glory (Psalms
115:1),
Here again we have the same idea. Don't reverend me. "Not unto us,
Lord, not unto us, but to Thy name." Let there be ascri...
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2 Samuel 24:3; Acts 2:39; Acts 3:25; Genesis 13:16; Genesis 17:7;
Hosea 1:10; Isaiah 19:20; Isaiah 19:21; Isaiah 2:2; Isaiah 2:3;...