1 Chronicles 16:8
Give thanks <03034> [Give thanks.]
This beautiful hymn, to the 22nd verse, is nearly the same as Ps 105:1-15; from the 23rd to the 33rd it accords with Ps 96; and the conclusion agrees with Ps 106, with the addition of ver. 34-36.
Call <07121> [call.]
known <03045> [make.]
1 Chronicles 16:34
Give thanks <03034> [give thanks.]
1 Chronicles 16:2
burnt sacrifices <05930> [the burnt.]
blessing <01288> [he blessed.]
1 Chronicles 5:13
This verse is wanting both in the Syriac and Arabic.
1 Chronicles 7:3
1 Chronicles 20:1
time <06256> [A.M. 2969. B.C. 1035. An. Ex. Is. 456. And it came.]
spring .... time <08141 08666 06256> [after the year was expired. Heb. at the return of the year.]
devastated <07843> [wasted.]
Rabbah ......... Rabbah <07237> [Rabbah.]
Joab ........................ Joab defeated <05221 03097> [Joab smote.]
Ezra 3:11
sang <06030> [they sang.]
good ............................ established <02896 03245> [because.]
shout <07321> [shouted.]
good ............................ established <02896 03245> [because.]
Psalms 106:1
[(Title.)]
As part of the preceding Psalm is found in 1 Ch ch. 16, so the first and two last verses of this are found in the same place; and it is highly probable this was composed upon the same occasion as the former, to which it seems to be a continuation; for as that celebrates the mercies of God to Israel, so this confesses and deplores the rebellions of Israel against Jehovah.
Praise <01984 03050> [Praise ye the Lord. Heb. Hallelujah.]
Give thanks <03034> [O give.]
good <02896> [for he.]
Psalms 107:1
[A.M. 3468. B.C. 536. (Title.)]
The author of this Psalm is unknown; but it was evidently written to commemorate the return of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity; and it may easily be perceived that it must have been sung in alternate parts, having a double burden, or two intercalary verses often recurring. Bp. Lowth considers it as written "after the method of the ancient pastorals, where, be the subject of their verse what it will, each swain endeavours to excel the other; and one may perceive their thoughts and expressions gradually to rise upon each other." "No doubt," he adds, "the composition of this Psalm is admirable throughout; and the descriptive part of it adds at least its share of beauty to the whole; but what is most to be admired is its conciseness, and withal the expressiveness of the diction, which strikes the imagination with illimitable elegance. The weary and bewildered traveller--the miserable captive in the dungeon--the sick and dying man--the seaman foundering in a storm--are described in so affecting a manner, that they far exceed any thing of the kind, though never so much laboured."
Give thanks <03034> [Give.]
good <02896> [good.]
loyal love <02617> [for his mercy.]
Psalms 118:1-4
[A.M. 2962. B.C. 1042. (Title.)]
This Psalm was probably composed by David after Nathan's prophetic address; and sung by alternate choirs at some public festival. It largely partakes of David's spirit, and everywhere shews the hand of a master; the style is grand and sublime; the subject noble and majestic.
Psalms 136:1-26
[(Title.)]
This Psalm is little else than a repetition of the preceding, with the addition of the burden, "for his mercy endureth for ever," at the end of each verse; and it was doubtless composed on the same occasion. It seems evidently to have been a responsive song; the first part of the verse being probably sung by the Levites, and the burden by the people.
Give thanks <03034> [Give thanks.]
loyal love <02617> [for his mercy.]
God ... gods <0430> [the God.]
Lord ... lords <0113> [the Lord.]
performs <06213> [who alone.]
In the contrivance of the celestial bodies--in their specific gravities, relations, connections, influences on each other, revolutions, etc.; and in the wonderful adaptation of the atmosphere for the purposes of refracting the light, forming rain, dew, snow, etc., are exhibited the most astonishing displays of the Divine wisdom.
sun <08121> [The sun.]
rule <04475> [to rule. Heb. for the rulings.]
moon ... stars <03394 03556> [The moon and stars.]
The sun is the monarch of day, the state of light; the moon of the night, the state of darkness. The rays of the sun falling on the atmosphere, are refracted and diffused over the whole of the hemisphere of the earth immediately under his orb; while those rays of that vast luminary which, because of the earth's smallness in comparison with the sun, are diffused on all sides beyond the earth, falling on the opaque disc of the moon, are reflected back on the lower hemisphere, or the part of the earth opposite the sun. But the reflected light being 50,000 times less in intensity than that of the sun, there is a sufficient distinction between day and night, though each is ruled and determined by one of these two great lights.
led <03318> [brought out.]
through <05674> [pass through.]
tossed <05287> [But overthrew. Heb. But shaked off.]
loyal love <02617> [for his mercy.]
remembered <02142> [remembered.]
down <08216> [in our low estate.]
gives food <05414 03899> [who giveth food.]
God ... heaven <08064 0410> [the God of heaven.]
