“ Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. ”
Judah was his sanctuary - His home; his abode; his sacred dwelling-place. Judah was the principal or leading tribe, recognized as the tribe where power was to be concentrated, and from which the...
Judah was his (b) sanctuary, [and] Israel his dominion. (b) The whole people were witnesses to his holy majesty in adopting them, and of his mighty power in delivering them.
CXIV. The marvels on the way from Egypt to Zion, the future sanctuary of Yahweh, and to Canaan as Israel's possession. A Passover hymn.
was . became. See note on Genesis 1:2 .
Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. Judah was his sanctuary - He set up his true worship among the Jews, and took them for his peculiar people. And Israel his dominion - These words...
Judah was his sanctuary— The tribe of Judah is here put for the Jews in general, because Judah was the principal tribe. See Numbers 2:3 ; Numbers 7:12 ; Numbers 10:14 . A correspondent of Sir Ri...
Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. Judah was his sanctuary. "Was" in Hebrew is feminine, whereas Judah is masculine. Judah is therefore here personified as a virgin ( Isaiah 22...
This has been called 'one of the finest lyrics in literature.' Probably it is a post-exilic psalm wherein, under the figure of the old exodus from Egypt, the Psalmist chants the return from Babylon....
Judah was. — Better, became. The feminine verb shows that the country is intended, and not the tribe, and the parallelism directs us to think not of the territory of the tribe of Judah alone, but...
Psalms 114:1-8 It is possible that in this psalm Israel, restored from Babylon, is looking back to the earlier Exodus, and shrilling with the great thought that that old past lives again in the pr...
the Mighty God Uplifteth the Lowly Psalms 113:1-9 ; Psalms 114:1-8 We detect the song of Samuel's mother in the first of these psalms. She sang the Old Testament “Magnificat” and it was embalm...
This is the second psalm in the Hallel. The first set forth the might and mercy of Jehovah. This is pre-eminently a song of His might, and so the name of God is used. If however it sings of His might...
Reader, do not fail to remark, that when Israel was brought out of Egypt, the Lord set up his tabernacle among them, and manifested his presence to them. And when the Lord Jesus brings out his people...
Judah was his sanctuary ,.... Meaning not the tribe of Judah only, though that in many things had the preeminence; the kingdom belonging to it, the chief ruler being out of it, especially the Messia...
Judah was his sanctuary, [and] Israel his dominion. Ver. 2. Judah was his sanctuary ] Or sanctity, or sanctification. This was a happy change for them, from their Egyptian idolatry, Ezekiel 23:19...
When Israel went out of Egypt That is, were brought out by mighty signs and wonders wrought by the power of God; from a people of a strange language From a barbarous people, as some render it: th...
The Deliverance of Israel Celebrated. 1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange lang...
Judah, or Israel , as it is explained in the next clause; one tribe being put for all; which is a common synecdoche. Judah he mentions as the chief of all the tribes, not only in number and power,...
INTRODUCTION Date and Authorship unknown; ascribed to the three Hebrew children, Esther and Mordscai. BONDAGE AND DELIVERANCE ( Psalms 114:1 ) I. The bondage was degrading . “Israel,” “Egypt...
Psalms 114:1-19 . When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven...
This is another hallelujah psalm, praising the Lord for deliverance from Egypt for calling the Hebrews to holiness for dividing the sea, and driving Jordan back for making the mountains skip like lam...
When Israel went out of Egypt. The workings of the Eternal will God has a will. He doeth all things after the “counsel of His own will.” The universe is but His will in form and action. It is t...
EXPOSITION A PSALM of reminiscence, designed to encourage the exiles on their return from Babylon, during their "day of small things" ( Zechariah 4:10 ; comp. Ezra 3:12 ). If God had done so...
The God of Jacob the Deliverer out of Egypt. A majestic song celebrating the care of God for His people at the time of the exodus from Egypt, when all the powers of nature were called to contribut...
2 Corinthians 6:16 ; 2 Corinthians 6:17 ; Deuteronomy 23:14 ; Deuteronomy 27:12 ; Deuteronomy 27:9 ; Exodus 19:5 ; Exodus 19:6 ; Exodus 25:8 ; Exodus 29:45 ; Exodus 29:46 ; Exodus 6:7 ; E...
Judah — Or Israel, one tribe being put for all. Judah he mentions as the chief of all the tribes.