“ Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless the LORD. ”
Bless the Lord, O house of Israel ... - This passage, also, is evidently an imitation of the passage in Psalms 115:9-13 . The form in Psalms 115 , however, is rather an exhortation to trust in...
CXXXV. The Almighty Power of Yahweh and His Favour to Israel. This Ps. is largely borrowed. Thus Psalms 135:7 is from Jeremiah 10:13 ; Jeremiah 10:10-12 from Psalms 136:7 ff., Psalms 136:14...
Levi. Not included in 115.
Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless the LORD.
Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of Aaron: Bless the Lord, O house of Israel ... O house of Aaron ... O house of Levi: ye that fear the Lord - ( Psalms 115:9-11 .) B...
A Ps. of praise suitable for public worship, beginning and ending with the liturgical Hallelujah. It is full of rich mosaics illustrating Jehovah's greatness and the vanity of idols. Psalms 134, 135...
From Psalms 115:9-11 , with the addition, “O house of Levi.”
Psalms 135:1-21 LIKE Psalms 97:1-12 ; Psalms 98:1-9 , this is a cento, or piece of mosaic work, apparently intended as a call to worship Jehovah in the Temple. His greatness, as manifested in Na...
Men become like the Gods They Serve Psalms 135:13-21 What a contrast between our God and idols! His mouth speaks words of grace; His eyes follow our every movement and watch our sleep; His ears...
After the general movement of this book of the Psalter which has brought us in thought to the ultimate realisation of worship, and before the final psalms of perfected praise, we now have a section (...
From the wretched state of the idolatrous nations around, Israel, as a nation of Priests and Levites to the Lord, is called upon to mark its distinguishing blessings, and to make a proper use of them...
Bless the Lord, O house of Levi ,.... These were of the same tribe with the house of Aaron, but inferior ministers; they ministered to the priests, and had the charge of things in the tabernacle and...
Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless the LORD. Ver. 20. Ye that fear the Lord ] Ye devout Proselytes.
Bless the Lord, O house of Israel He who proved himself to be infinitely superior to the objects of heathen idolatry, is no less superior to every object on which deluded men can place their affect...
An Invitation to Praise. 15 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 16 They have mou...
No text from Poole on this verse.
INTRODUCTION “We have now,” says Hengstenberg, “a group of twelve Psalms, sung after the prosperous completion of the Temple, and probably at its dedication, consisting of three new Psalms at the be...
fear ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 19:9 ).
Psalms 135:1 . Praise ye the LORD. Or, «Hallelujah.» «Hallelujah» is the key-note of it. So this is one of the Hallelujah Psalms, for so it begins; and if you look at the end, you will see that s...
This psalm is an enlargement on the subject of the preseding psalm. It calls upon the priests, the levites, and all Israel to praise the name of the Lord, on a review of his mercies to their fathers....
Praise ye the Lord. The sublime object of worship I. In His absolute goodness ( Psalms 135:1-3 ). He is “good”--essentially, eternally, infinitely, immutably. II. In His relative kindness (v...
EXPOSITION A SONG of praise to God ( Psalms 135:1-19 , Psalms 135:19 ) for: 1. His mercies to Israel ( Psalms 135:4 , Psalms 135:14 ). 2. His greatness in nature ( Psalms 135:5-19 ) a...
The Hallelujah of the Congregation and Its Servants. A hymn setting forth the wonderful relation of God to His Church, His almighty power over all the world, and His mercy in delivering His people...
2 Chronicles 1:3 ; Proverbs 14:2 ; Psalms 103:11 ; Psalms 103:13 ; Psalms 103:17 ; Psalms 115:11 ; Psalms 118:4 ; Psalms 119:63 ; Psalms 119:74 ; Psalms 22:23 ; Psalms 72:18 ; Revelation...