“ The Lord gave the word: great was the companye of those that published it. ”
The Lord gave the word - The command, or the order. It is not certain to what the psalmist here refers; whether to some particular occasion then fresh in the recollection of the people, when a gr...
The Lord gave the word: great [was] the company of (h) those that published [it]. (h) The fashion then was that women sang songs after the victory, as did Miriam, Deborah, Judith and others.
LXVIII. A Song of Triumph. The most difficult of all the Pss. In some places the text is so corrupt that it defies any attempt at emendation, and the VSS give little, if any, help. The historical a...
The LORD *. One of the 134 places where Jehovah was changed by the Sopherim to Adonai. See App-32. also verses: Psalms 68:17 ; Psalms 68:19 ; Psalms 68:22 , Psa 17:26, Psa 17:32. company . h...
11. The Lord shall give the word, etc. David now adverts to the victories by which God had signally displayed his power in behalf of his people. He had himself been the instrument of restori...
The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it . Great was the company of those that published it - המבשרות צבא רב hammebasseroth tsaba rab; "Of the female preachers ther...
The Lord gave the word— Having celebrated the power and goodness of God, which fed them in the wilderness, he now proceeds to speak of the great deliverances that he wrought out for them from their...
The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. -God's doings for His people from the time of their entrance into Canaan until the setting up of the sanctuary in Zion...
This is one of the grandest of the Pss., but its origin and date are involved in much obscurity. It contains expressions borrowed from the Blessing of Moses ( Deuteronomy 33 ) and the Song of Deborah...
The Lord gave... — Literally, The Lord gives a word. Of the women who bring the news, the host is great. The Hebrew for a word is poetical, and used especially of a Divine utterance ( Psalms 19...
Psalms 68:1-35 THIS superb hymn is unsurpassed, if not unequalled, in grandeur, lyric fire, and sustained rush of triumphant praise. It celebrates a victory; but it is the victory of the God who e...
the Leader of His People Psalms 68:1-11 This is one of the grandest odes in literature. It was probably composed when the Ark was brought in triumph from the house of Obed-edom to the newly acq...
This psalm sings the praise of the God of deliverances. It opens with a song of pure praise (verses Psa 68:1-6). This is then justified by a review of God's past dealings with His people (verses Psa...
If we read these triumphs in a spiritual sense, with reference to the preaching of the everlasting gospel, the subject will be infinitely heightened above that of the mere history. The Lord indeed ga...
The Lord gave the word ,.... The word of the Gospel to his apostles. He committed the word of reconciliation to them; he intrusted them with it, as a sacred depositum; he gave gifts unto them, quali...
The Lord gave the word: great [was] the company of those that published [it]. Ver. 11. The Lord gave the word ] That is, the occasion. De victu dixit, nunc de victoria, saith Vatablus; how God...
The Lord gave the word The matter of the word, or discourse here following. He put this triumphal song into the mouths of his people; he gave them those successes and victories which are here celeb...
Thankful Praises to God; Mercies Recollected. 7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march...
Gave the word, i.e. the matter of the word or discourse here following. He put this triumphant song into their mouths; he gave his people all those successes and victories which are here celebrated...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician .” See Introduction to Psalms 57 . “ A Psalm or Song of David .” See Introduction to Psalms 48 . The Superscription does not mention the occ...
This was a Psalm sung, at the removing of the ark, when it was taken up to its resting-place on Mount Zion. All the tribes were gathered together, and, in full pomp, they marched along, bearing the s...
This psalm is the Carmen seculare of the Hebrews, and far surpasses the Te Deum of the christians. It has justly been eulogized in the whole succession of theological composition,. The song burst...
O God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, when Thou didst march through the wilderness. The progress of humanity I. It commences with the Divinely terrible ( Psalms 68:7-8 ). As a rule,...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is one of triumphant praise and jubilation, the crown and gem of the Second Book. Professor Cheyne calls it "a patriotic and religious ode of wondrous range and compass,...
Of the Messiah's Exaltation. To the chief musician, a psalm or song of David, the event which was the immediate cause for writing this powerful hymn, according to most commentators. being the plac...
Ephesians 4:11 ; Exodus 14:15 ; Exodus 15:20 ; Exodus 17:9-16 ; Judges 4:6-24 ; Judges 5:1-31 ; Psalms 40:3 ; Psalms 68:25 ; Revelation 19:13
Gave — He put this triumphant song into their mouths.