“ O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. ”
O house of Aaron ... - Ministers of religion; descendants of Aaron. His family was consecrated to the various services of the sanctuary.
(g) O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he [is] their help and their shield. (g) For they were appointed by God as instructors and teachers of faith and religion for others to follow.
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...
DISCOURSE: 688 TRUST IN GOD RECOMMENDED Psalms 115:9-13 . O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is their help and their shield. O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord: he is their help and their shi...
O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. O house of Aaron - All the different classes of the priesthood.
O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord. The ministers of the sanctuary, as being the spiritual guides of the people, shoul...
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 115:9-10 ; Psalms 115:11 —the first eight and th...
Psalms 115:1-18 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...
Powerless Idols; Our Powerful God Psalms 115:1-18 Evidently this psalm was intended to be sung by various voices: Psalms 115:1-8 by the whole congregation in unison, while the sacrifice was b...
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...
Observe the gracious call of God to the several orders of his people. First, to Israel; next, to the priests of Israel; thirdly, to all in whose heart the fear of the Lord is; perhaps taking in both...
O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord ,.... The family of the tribe of Levi, that was separated from the rest, to minister in the priest's office, to offer gifts and sacrifices for the people, and to...
O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he [is] their help and their shield. Ver. 10 O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord ] Ministers must be patterns to others of depending upon God, and living by fa...
O Israel, trust in the Lord Do not you follow the example of these infatuated idolaters, but trust in, worship, and serve the Lord only. He is their help and their shield The shield to defend, an...
Confidence in God. 9 O Israel, trust thou in the L ORD : he is their help and their shield. 10 O house of Aaron, tr...
You priests and Levites proceeding from Aaron, or related to him, who have special reason and many obligations to do it, who have a more distinct knowledge of God, which is the foundation of trust,...
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 quotati...
Psalms 115:1-19 . 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 i...
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 pr...
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 G...
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...
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 hea...
Exodus 28:1 ; Numbers 16:40 ; Numbers 16:5 ; Numbers 18:7
Aaron — You priests and Levites.