
Text -- Psalms 135:4 (NET)




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JFB -> Psa 135:4-7
JFB: Psa 135:4-7 - -- God's choice of Israel is the first reason assigned for rendering praise; the next, His manifested greatness in creation and providence.
God's choice of Israel is the first reason assigned for rendering praise; the next, His manifested greatness in creation and providence.
Clarke -> Psa 135:4
Clarke: Psa 135:4 - -- For the Lord hath chosen Jacob - This is a third reason. He has taken the Israelites for his peculiar people, סגלתו segullatho , his peculiar ...
For the Lord hath chosen Jacob - This is a third reason. He has taken the Israelites for his peculiar people,
Calvin -> Psa 135:4
Calvin: Psa 135:4 - -- 4.For God hath chosen Jacob Other reasons are given afterwards why they should praise God, drawn from his government of the world. But as it was only...
4.For God hath chosen Jacob Other reasons are given afterwards why they should praise God, drawn from his government of the world. But as it was only the children of Abraham who were favored with the knowledge of God at that time, and were capable of praising him, the Psalmist directs them to the fact of their having been chosen by God to be his peculiar people, as affording matter for thanksgiving. The mercy was surely one of incomparable value, and which might well stir them up to fervent gratitude and praise, adopted as they were into favor with God, while the whole Gentile world was passed by. The praise of their election is given by the Psalmist to God — a clear proof that they owed the distinction not to any excellency of their own, but to the free mercy of God the Father which had been extended to them. He has laid all without exception under obligation to his service, for
“he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good.”
(Mat 5:45.)
But he bound the posterity of Abraham to him by a closer tie, such as that by which he now adopts men generally into his Church, and unites them with the body of his only-begotten Son. 158
TSK -> Psa 135:4
TSK: Psa 135:4 - -- the Lord : Psa 33:12; Deu 7:6, Deu 7:7, Deu 10:15; 1Sa 12:22; Isa 41:8, Isa 43:20, Isa 43:21; Zec 2:10-12; 1Pe 2:9
his peculiar : Exo 19:5, Exo 19:6; ...

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Barnes -> Psa 135:4
Barnes: Psa 135:4 - -- For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself - The descendants of Jacob. He has selected them from among all the inhabitants of the earth to be ...
For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself - The descendants of Jacob. He has selected them from among all the inhabitants of the earth to be his special people.
And Israel for his peculiar treasure - The word here rendered treasure, means that which is acquired; property; wealth. They were what God possessed, owned, or claimed among all the people of the earth as especially his own. He had chosen them; he had redeemed them; he had made them his own, and he regarded them with the interest with which anyone looks on his own property, the fruit of his own toil. See Exo 19:5; Deu 7:6; Deu 32:9; 1Ki 8:53.
Haydock -> Psa 135:4
Haydock: Psa 135:4 - -- Wonders. If saints or others work miracles, it is only by God's permission. (Theodoret) ---
None can do any thing against his will. (Haydock) ---...
Wonders. If saints or others work miracles, it is only by God's permission. (Theodoret) ---
None can do any thing against his will. (Haydock) ---
Only He can perform true miracles, above the course of nature. (Worthington) ---
They prove the divinity. (Calmet)
Gill -> Psa 135:4
Gill: Psa 135:4 - -- For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself,.... To be his own special people, and not another's; for his own service, and for his glory; and to be an...
For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself,.... To be his own special people, and not another's; for his own service, and for his glory; and to be an habitation for himself, and to be for ever with him. This is not to be understood personally of Jacob, though a chosen vessel of mercy; nor of his natural posterity as such, though chosen as a nation to outward favours; for not all they, only some of them, were chosen to special grace and glory, a remnant according to the election of grace: but mystical and spiritual Jacob and Israel are meant, even the whole church and people of God, whether Jews or Gentiles; these God has chosen, of his own free grace and good will, to all the blessings of grace and glory, and that from all eternity; which choice will remain firm and immutable, in time and for ever; and therefore is worthy of praise and thanksgiving, now, and to all eternity;
and Israel for his peculiar treasure; by whom they are accounted as such; even as the peculiar treasure of kings, as silver, gold, jewels, and precious stones; as his inheritance, his portion, and peculiar people; see Exo 19:5.

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NET Notes: Psa 135:4 His special possession. The language echoes Exod 19:5; Deut 7:6; 14:2; 26:18. See also Mal 3:17.
Geneva Bible -> Psa 135:4
Geneva Bible: Psa 135:4 For the LORD hath ( c ) chosen Jacob unto himself, [and] Israel for his peculiar treasure.
( c ) That is, has freely loved the posterity of Abraham.

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TSK Synopsis -> Psa 135:1-21
TSK Synopsis: Psa 135:1-21 - --1 An exhortation to praise God for his mercy;5 for his power;8 for his judgments.15 The vanity of idols.19 An exhortation to bless God.
MHCC -> Psa 135:1-4
MHCC: Psa 135:1-4 - --The subject-matter of praise, is the blessings of grace flowing from the everlasting love of God. The name of God as a covenant God and Father in Chri...
Matthew Henry -> Psa 135:1-4
Matthew Henry: Psa 135:1-4 - -- Here is, 1. The duty we are called to - to praise the Lord, to praise his name; praise him, and again praise him. We must not only thank him f...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Psa 135:1-4
Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 135:1-4 - --
The beginning is taken from Psa 134:1; Psa 135:2 recalls Psa 116:19 (cf. Psa 92:14); and Psa 135:4 is an echo of Deu 7:6. The servants of Jahve to ...
Constable: Psa 107:1--150:6 - --V. Book 5: chs. 107--150
There are 44 psalms in this section of the Psalter. David composed 15 of these (108-110...

Constable: Psa 135:1-21 - --Psalm 135
This psalm praises God for His greatness and for blessing His people. As Psalm 134, it calls o...
