Psalms 99:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions. ”

Psalms 99:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God - The reference here is to God as “our” God; that is, the language used by those who now worship him is designed to give encouragement in approaching his thro...
Psalms 99:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of (e) their inventions. (e) The more liberally God deals with his people, the more he punish...
Psalms 99:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

XCIX. A Temple Song after Victory. The Ps. is divided into three parts by the refrain Holy is he ( i.e. separate from all defilement) at Psalms 99:3 ; Psalms 99:5 and (in an expanded form) at...
Psalms 99:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

them . Moses and Aaron. GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. IV them... their . the People. tookest vengeance. Compare Numbers 20:12 . Deuteronomy 3:26 ; Psalms 106:32 ; Psalms 106:33 .
Psalms 99:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8. O Jehovah our God The prophet here reminds them that God had heard their prayers because his grace and their piety harmonized. Consequently, encouraged by their exemplary success in praye...
Psalms 99:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions. Thou - forgavest them - When the people had sinned, and wrath was about t...
Psalms 99:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Thou answeredst them, &c.— Fenwick renders this verse thus: Them, Lord our God, thou didst accept; Through them thou didst forbear, and mercy grant, Though thy just vengeance had the people s...
Psalms 99:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them. -Admonition to Israel, literal and spiritual, to be instructe...
Psalms 99:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thou tookest vengeance of their inventions (or, works ). — This does not refer to the personages just mentioned but to the people at large. The train of thought is as follows: — “There are great s...
Psalms 99:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 99:1-9 DELITZSCH has well called this psalm "an earthly echo of the seraphic Trisagion," the threefold proclamation of the Divine holiness, which Isaiah. Isaiah 6:3 It is, as already note...
Psalms 99:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Worship the Great and Holy One Psalms 99:1-9 This psalm has its counterpart in Psalms 97:1-12 . There Jehovah's reign is associated with the gladness of faith; here with the trembling of morta...
Psalms 99:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is a song of the Kingdom of Jehovah as founded upon and administered in holiness. There are three distinct parts, each ending with practically the same refrain. The first acclaims the King enthr...
Psalms 99:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Perhaps this is particularly added concerning those eminently gracious men, to show us, that notwithstanding the sanctity of their character, they were men of like passions with ourselves. Therefore...
Psalms 99:8 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

PARDON WITH PUNISHMENT Thou wast a God that forgavest them, though Thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.’ Psalms 99:8 The truths that lie in the text are these: pardon and retribution ar...
Psalms 99:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God ,.... This is repeated to show the certainty of it, and to encourage the people of God, in all ages, to pray unto him: thou wast a God that forgavest them ; ev...
Psalms 99:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions. Ver. 8. Thou wast a God, &c. ] A sin pardoning God, Nehemiah 9:17...
Psalms 99:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou answeredst them, O Lord Namely, the intercessors before mentioned. Thou forgavest them Either, 1st, Moses and Aaron, who sinned, and whose sins God pardoned, yet so that he punished them wit...
Psalms 99:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Divine Justice and Mercy. 6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they call...
Psalms 99:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Answeredst them; the intercessors before mentioned. Forgavest them; either, 1. Moses and Aaron, who did sin, and whose sins God did pardon, yet so that he did punish them with exclusion from the...
Psalms 99:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION This Psalm is one of the series of Psalms which celebrate the Kingship of Jehovah. “All these Psalms,” says Perowne, “alike tell of the setting up of a Divine kingdom upon earth. All al...
Psalms 99:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 99:8 The truths that lie in the text are these: pardon and retribution are ever united. They spring from one source of holy love, and they ought to become to us the occasions of solemn and...
Psalms 99:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

All the Versions ascribe this psalm to David, except the Chaldee, which, like the Hebrew, has no title. The occasion of its being composed is not known. Psalms 99:1 . He sitteth between the cherub...
Psalms 99:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

The Lord reigneth. The rulership of God over the world I. As seen in symbol. “He sitteth between the cherubim.” This reference to the Shekinah teaches us that His reign is-- 1. Moral. 2....
Psalms 99:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION HERE we have the last of the series of Second Advent psalms, which began with Psalms 93:1-19 . The first of them, the fifth, and the last, commence in the same way—with the watchwo...
Psalms 99:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Praise of the Messiah, the Thrice Holy. The psalmist, in this hymn of praise which fits so well into this series, sets forth the merciful government of God, particularly as exercised in and for Hi...
Psalms 99:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 3:26 ; Deuteronomy 9:19 ; Deuteronomy 9:20 ; Ecclesiastes 7:29 ; Exodus 32:2 ; Exodus 32:34 ; Exodus 32:35 ; Jeremiah 46:28 ; Numbers 11:33 ; Numbers 11:34 ; Numbers 14:20 ; N...
Psalms 99:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Them — The intercessors before mentioned. Forgavest — The people for whom they prayed, so far as not to inflict that total destruction upon them which they deserved;

Psalms 99:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 99:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 99:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 99:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 99:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 99:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 99:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 99:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 99:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 99:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 99:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 99:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 99:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 99:8 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 99:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 99:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 99:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 99:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 99:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 99:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 99:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 99:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 99:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 99:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 99:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 99:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 99:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes