“ For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. ”
For this was a statute for Israel ... - See Exodus 12:3 . That is, it was a law for the whole Jewish people, for all who had the name Israel, for all the descendants of Jacob. The word was is no...
LXXXI. This Ps. is probably composite. A. Psalms 81:1-4 . A Festal Hymn, specially adapted for the old New Year's Day or Feast of Trumpets (p. 104), which was held on the new moon of Tishri, t...
4 For this is a statute to Israel. To give the more effect to the preceding exhortation, it is here taught that this law or ordinance had been prescribed to God’s ancient people, for the pur...
For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. This was a statute for Israel - See the statute, Numbers 10:10 (note), and Leviticus 23:24 (note).
For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. For this was a statue for Israel and a law of the God of Jacob. "This" - i:e., the observance of the "solemn feast day." "A l...
After a summons to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles ( Psalms 81:1-3 ) this Ps. recalls the meaning of Israel's national festivals as memorials of their deliverance from Egypt ( Psalms 81:4-7 ). Fro...
For this. — Better, for it is a statute. Referring either to the feast itself or to the mode of celebrating it. Law. — Literally, judgment, as LXX. and Vulg.
Psalms 81:1-16 THE psalmist summons priests and people to a solemn festival, commemorative of Israel's deliverance from Egypt, and sets forth the lessons which that deliverance teaches, the learni...
Sing unto God, the Deliverer Psalms 81:1-7 It is supposed that this psalm was composed for use at the great Hebrew festivals and especially at the Passover, which is referred to in Psalms 81:5...
This is a psalm for the Feast of Trumpets. In the calendar of the Hebrews this feast prepared the way for the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles. The first day of the seventh month was the...
Moses appointed certain seasons of memorial; such, for example, as the passover; Exodus 12:23-24 .
For this was a statute for Israel ,.... It was not a piece of will worship, or device of the children of Israel, but was of divine institution; that the passover should be kept at the time it was; a...
For this [was] a statute for Israel, [and] a law of the God of Jacob. Ver. 4. For this was a statute ] The keeping of it therefore is not arbitrary, but necessary: Aut faciendum aut patiendum....
For this was a statute for Israel This is no human device, but a divine institution; God hath appointed and commanded this solemn feast to be announced and observed in this manner. This Namely, t...
An Invitation to Praise. To the chief musician upon Gittith. A psalm of Asaph. 1 Sing aloud unto God our strength:...
For this is no human device, but an appointment and command of the great God, and your Lord.
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the chief Musician upon Gittith .” Gittith is explained in several ways. One interpretation is that it was a musical instrument invented in Gath, or common among...
We have here an exhortation to praise God; and this is always in season. Perhaps we need more stirring up to praise than to prayer, yet it ought to be as natural for us to praise God as it is for the...
This psalm was composed for the festival of tabernacles, when the people celebrated the deliverance from Egypt. It was a statute in Israel on the first day of the Hebrew month of Tisri, or the new...
Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. A revelation of three great subjects I. True worship (verses1-5) 1. True worship is the highest happiness, which...
EXPOSITION PROFESSOR CHEYNE regards this psalm as composed of "two distinct lyrical passages," accidentally thrown together (compare his theory of Psalms 19:1-19 , Psalms 24:1-19 , Psalms...
A Joyful Salutation and God's Response. To the chief musician upon Gittith, to be sung to the accompaniment of the zitherlike instrument which David brought along from the Philistine city of Gath,...
Exodus 15:25 ; Genesis 18:19 ; Genesis 18:25 ; Leviticus 5:10 ; Psalms 1:5 ; Psalms 15:24 ; Psalms 2:7 ; Psalms 50:16 ; Psalms 7:6 ; Psalms 94:20 ; Psalms 81:1