Psalms 116:15

1 Samuel 25:29; Job 5:26; Luke 16:22; Psalms 37:32; Psalms 37:33; Psalms 72:14; Revelation 1:18; Revelation 14:3

Related Commentaries of Psalms 116:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints - Of his people; his friends. Luther renders this, “The death of his saints is held...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Precious in the sight of the LORD [is] the (i) death of his saints. (i) I perceive that God has a care over his, so that he both disposes their deat...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXVI. A Song of Comfort in Affliction. There is nothing to justify the division into two Pss. ( a ) Psalms 116:1-9 , ( b ) Psalms 116:10-19 (LXX...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Precious. See note on 1 Samuel 3:1 . saints . separated ones.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

15. Precious in the eyes of Jehovah is the death of his meek ones. He goes on now to the general doctrine of God’s providential care for the...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 692 THE DEATH OF SAINTS PRECIOUS Psalms 116:15 . Previous in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. THE meaning of these...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. Precious in the sight of the Lord - Many have understood this verse as meaning, "the...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Precious in the sight of the Lord— The word precious is not here so to be understood as to signify that which is spoken of to be desireable to...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints - the ground of th...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 115-118 were probably the hymns sung by our Lord and His disciples. Some modern scholars, however, deny this, on the ground that, in Christ's...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Precious ] i.e. of such consequence to God that He will require penalties for it.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Precious... — This is only another form of the statement in Psalms 72:14 . But again we have to ask why the thought of death should intrude upon t...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 116:1-19 THIS psalm is intensely individual. "I," "me," or "my" occurs in every verse but two ( Psalms 116:5 , Psalms 116:19 ). The singer...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Praise Him for All His Benefits Psalms 116:12-19 ; Psalms 117:1-2 The psalmist dwells joyfully on his enslavement to God, because in and throu...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is the fourth song of the Hallel. In it the note of triumph over death, with which the last one closed, is elaborated. The singer had evidently...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This verse comes as in a parenthesis. It may serve to comfort the faithful in the recollection. And as the death of the faithful is precious, so thei...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Precious in the sight of the Lord [is] the death of his saints. The Lord has his saints or sanctified ones, who are sanctified or set apart by God...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Precious in the sight of the LORD [is] the death of his saints. Ver. 15. Precious in the sight of the Lord ] Rara, chara, God doth not often suf...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Precious, &c., is the death of his saints He sets a high price upon it: he will not easily grant it to the will of their enemies. If any son of...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Grateful Acknowledgments; Devout Resolutions. 10 I believed, therefor...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He sets a high price upon it; he will not readily grant it to those that greedily seek it; and if any son of violence procure it, he will make him, p...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “This Psalm is an evidence of the truth and depth of the religious life in individuals after the return from the Exile.… It reminds us...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

I knew a godly woman who, when she was very sick, would always say, «Read me the 116 th Psalm.» It is deservedly a great favourite with many experi...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

In this Psalm, David tells us his experience with regard to God and with regard to men. Psalms 116:1 . I love the LORD, because he hath heard my v...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

We have read this Psalm many times, and have often felt it to be a photograph of our own spiritual experience; but we will, on this occasion, read it...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 116:1 . I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Every answered prayer should make us love the Lord, and esp...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

We have read this Psalm many times, let us read it now, not regarding it so much as the language of the psalmist uttered thousands of years ago, as o...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

The whole Psalm is one of joyous thanksgiving because of God's mercy to the singer. He had been in deep waters of trial and affliction, but had not b...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

It is scarcely doubted but David is the author of this psalm, and that he wrote it when in exile from Saul's persecution, or when Absalom rebelled, o...
The Biblical Illustrator

I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications. Christian experience and its results I. The psalm opens with a general de...
The Biblical Illustrator

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. Precious death As we see death, it means decay, removal, absence--things which we...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION A PSALM of thanksgiving on deliverance from an imminent peril, placed in the mouth of an individual, but possibly intended for litu...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Thanksgiving for Deliverance from Extreme Perils. The psalmist proclaims the fact that he was saved from great dangers, celebrates his deliverance...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Precious in the sight of the Lord, esteemed very highly by Him, is the death of His saints, that is, He will not readily let death take them away f...

¹⁵ Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 116:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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