Psalms 150:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Praise him with the timbrel and dance:b praise him with stringed instruments and organs. ”

• Psalms 150:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Praise him with the timbrel - Hebrew, תף tôph . See this described in the notes at Isaiah 5:12 . It is rendered tabret and tabrets in Genesis 31:27 ; 1Sa 10:5 ; 1 Samuel 18:6 ; Isaiah...

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• Psalms 150:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  CL. Each book ends with a doxology. Here we have a much longer doxology, which closes Book V and the whole Psalter also. The praise of God begins from His sanctuary, i.e. probably from His sanctu...

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• Psalms 150:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  timbrel . drum. See note on Exodus 15:20 . organs . pipe, or reed (singular, never pl).

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• Psalms 150:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him with the timbrel - תף toph, drum, tabret, or tomtom, or tympanum of the ancients; a skin stretched o...

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• Psalms 150:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him with the timbrel and dance - ( Psalms 149:3 .) The timbrel accompanied the dance ( Exodus 15...

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• Psalms 150:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  This is 'the grand Finale of the spiritual concert,' and worthily closes not only this little Hallelujah group, but the whole Psalter.

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• Psalms 150:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Timbrel and dance. — See Psalms 149:3 . Stringed instruments. — Minnîm. Literally, parts, so threads, so here, as in LXX. and Vulg., “with” or “on strings.” (See Note, Psalms 45:9 .) O...

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• Psalms 150:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 150:1-6 THIS noble close of the Psalter rings out one clear note of praise, as the end of all the many moods and experiences recorded in its wonderful sighs and songs. Tears, groans, wailin...

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• Psalms 150:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Praise-Songs of God's People Psalms 149:1-9 ; Psalms 150:1-6 Israel was formed into a nation and delivered from Babylon, that her singers should lead the praises of mankind, and her teache...

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• Psalms 150:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This psalm which concludes the book, and all the Psalter as final doxology, is the most comprehensive, and illuminative illustration of perfect praise in the whole Psalter. In our analysis of it as d...

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• Psalms 150:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Praise him with the timbrel and dance ,.... Or "pipe" u; Psalms 149:3 ; praise him with stringed instruments ; or divers "kinds" w of instruments not named, as R. Saadiah Gaon; and which, as Abe...

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• Psalms 150:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Ver. 4. Praise him with the timbrel and dance ] Or, pipe. But these are ancient things (as it is said in ano...

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• Psalms 150:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Praise him with the sound of the trumpet , &c. “It is impossible for us to distinguish,” says Dr. Horne, “and describe the several sorts of musical instruments here mentioned, as the Hebrews the...

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• Psalms 150:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  An Invitation to Praise God; All Creatures Called to Praise God.       1 Praise ye the L ORD . Praise God in his sanctuary: p...

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• Psalms 150:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Psalms 150:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION Dean Perowne speaks of this Psalm as “the great closing Hallelujah, or Doxology, of the Psalter, in which every kind of musical instrument is to hear its part as well as the voice of ma...

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• Psalms 150:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Psalms 150:1 . Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: Notice how, in this last Psalm, it is praise, praise, praise, all the way through. I think we have the word «praise» some thirteen...

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• Psalms 150:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The full choir, the full band, and the full heart, are here exhorted to praise the Lord. Surely this, when holy prophets joined in the worship, must resemble heaven itself. But oh how can drunkards,...

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• Psalms 150:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Praise God in His sanctuary. Worship I. Its spirit is exultation. Is there gratitude in it? Yes, gratitude of the highest type and degree, and gratitude is an element of joy. Is there admiratio...

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• Psalms 150:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION COMMENTATORS generally are agreed that this is a most noble psalm, a fit conclusion to the noble collection which here terminates. Professor Cheyne says, " Psalms 150:1-19 closes t...

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• Psalms 150:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Concluding Hymn of Praise. The last Hallelujah Psalm is a fitting doxology for the whole Book of Psalms, proclaiming the place, theme, mode, and extent of God's praise.

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• Psalms 150:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 15:20 ; Habakkuk 3:19 ; Isaiah 38:20 ; Job 30:31 ; Psalms 144:9 ; Psalms 33:2 ; Psalms 92:3 ; Psalms 149:3

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