Psalms 119:99 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. ”

Psalms 119:99 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have more understanding than all my teachers - Referring perhaps to those who had given him instruction in early life. By constant meditation on the law of God, he had, in the progress of years...
Psalms 119:99 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

I have more (b) understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies [are] my meditation. (b) Whoever submits himself only to God's word will not only be safe against the practises of his enemies...
Psalms 119:99 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXIX. Praise of the Law. This is the longest and most artificial Ps. in the whole collection. It is divided into twenty-two strophes, each beginning with one of the twenty-two letters of the Heb. a...
Psalms 119:99 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

than all my teachers. Because Divinely taught Divine wisdom.
Psalms 119:99 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 708 DAVID’S BOASTING EXPLAINED AND VINDICATED Psalms 119:97-100 . O how love I thy Law! It is my meditation all the day. Thou, through thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine e...
Psalms 119:99 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I have more understanding than all my teachers - As he had entered into the spiritual nature of the law of God...
Psalms 119:99 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. By the teaching o...
Psalms 119:99 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The longest Ps. and the best example of an alphabetical Ps. There are in it twenty-two stanzas; each of the 8 vv. of each stanza commences with the same Hebrew letter. The subject is practically the...
Psalms 119:99 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

More understanding... — The Rabbinical writers disliked the idea of a scholar professing wisdom above his teachers, and rendered, “from all my teachers I got wisdom,” which was certainly far more i...
Psalms 119:99 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 119:1-176 IT is lost labour to seek for close continuity or progress in this psalm. One thought pervades it-the surpassing excellence of the Law; and the beauty and power of the psalm lie i...
Psalms 119:99 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Thy Word Is a Lamp, unto My Feet” Psalms 119:97-112 The psalmist cries, O how love I thy law! He then proceeds to say that he has become wiser than his enemies and has more understanding tha...
Psalms 119:99 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Any dealing with this psalm must necessarily be general and not particular. It has been called the psalm of the Law, not inaccurately; but the term, "The Law," should be understood in its widest sign...
Psalms 119:99 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

MEM. Reader! let us listen to these sweet words, as the words of Jesus. Let us beg of God the Holy Ghost to give us grace to feel and know our interest in what he here saith, from our interest in hi...
Psalms 119:99 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I have more understanding than all my teachers ,.... Such as had been or would have been his teachers, who were bad ones in religious matters; especially such might be the religious teachers in Saul...
Psalms 119:99 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies [are] my meditation. Ver. 99. I have more understanding than all my teachers ] i.e. I have understood by much reading more tha...
Psalms 119:99 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

MEM. Psalms 119:97 . O how I love thy law! O Lord, thou knowest my love to it is inexpressible: to then I appeal herein against all the censures and calumnies of my enemies to the contrary....
Psalms 119:99 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditatio...
Psalms 119:99 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Understanding: he speaks not here of notional, but of spiritual, and practical, and experimental knowledge. Than all my teachers; than all or most (for that general word is oft so understood) of...
Psalms 119:99 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril ( Psalms 119:9 ; Psalms 119:23 ; Psalms 119:46 ; Psalms 119:141...
Psalms 119:99 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 119:99-100 By obeying the commands of Scripture we learn that these commands really come from God; by trying we make proof; by doing we come to know. Now how comes this to pass? It happens...
Psalms 119:99 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 119:89 . For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. It is not a changeable or vanishing thing: «Thy word is settled,» settled for ever, settled «for ever in heaven.» As God changes n...
Psalms 119:99 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

That David was the author of this psalm, no one ever doubted. It is divided into twenty two octo-distichs, having a letter of the Hebrew alphabet at the head of each distich; and the couplets are mos...
Psalms 119:99 - The Biblical Illustrator

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for Thy testimonies are my meditation. Inward virtues to the truth of the Gospel 1. By obeying the commands of Scripture we learn that these comm...
Psalms 119:99 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses, every verse in each stanza beginning with its own...
Psalms 119:99 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Mem. God's Word the Essence of True Wisdom.
Psalms 119:99 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 15:11-13 ; 2 Chronicles 29:15-36 ; 2 Chronicles 30:22 ; 2 Samuel 15:24-26 ; 2 Timothy 3:15-17 ; Deuteronomy 4:6-8 ; Hebrews 5:12 ; Jeremiah 2:8 ; Jeremiah 8:8 ; Jeremiah 8:9 ;...

Psalms 119:99 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 119:99 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 119:99 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 119:99 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 119:99 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Psalms 119:99 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 119:99 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 119:99 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 119:99 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 119:99 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 119:99 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 119:99 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 119:99 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 119:99 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 119:99 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 119:99 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 119:99 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 119:99 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 119:99 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 119:99 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 119:99 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 119:99 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 119:99 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 119:99 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 119:99 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 119:99 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge