An exhortation to praise God, and to seek out his works. The history of God's providence over Abraham, over Joseph, over Jacob in Egypt, over Moses delivering the Israelites, over the Israelites brought out of Egypt, fed in the wilderness, and planted in Canaan.
IT appears from 1 Chronicles 16:8 that David was the author of the first part at least of this psalm, after his obtaining several signal victories over the Philistines: and he himself, most probably, enlarged it afterwards with the glorious detail of the mercies of God to the ancestors of the Jews from the days of Abraham. There are some few variations, but of little consequence, in this psalm and that part of it which is found 1 Chronicles 16.; but what follows from thence to the end is different in both. As it is historical, there need but few words to explain it.