Psalms 119:100

1 Kings 12:6-15; James 3:13; Jeremiah 8:8; Jeremiah 8:9; Job 12:12; Job 15:10; Job 15:9; Job 28:28; Job 32:10; Job 32:4; Matthew 7:24; Psalms 111:10

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I understand more than the ancients - Hebrew, The old men. It does not refer, as the word “ancients” does with us, to the people of former times,...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXIX. Praise of the Law. This is the longest and most artificial Ps. in the whole collection. It is divided into twenty-two strophes, each beginnin...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

ancients . elders, or the aged ones.
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 708 DAVID’S BOASTING EXPLAINED AND VINDICATED Psalms 119:97-100 . O how love I thy Law! It is my meditation all the day. Thou, throug...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. I understand more than the ancients - God had revealed to him more of that hidden w...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. Obedience...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The longest Ps. and the best example of an alphabetical Ps. There are in it twenty-two stanzas; each of the 8 vv. of each stanza commences with the s...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ancients. — Or, more probably, as the LXX. and Vulg., and the old versions generally took it, old men.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 119:1-176 IT is lost labour to seek for close continuity or progress in this psalm. One thought pervades it-the surpassing excellence of th...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Thy Word Is a Lamp, unto My Feet” Psalms 119:97-112 The psalmist cries, O how love I thy law! He then proceeds to say that he has become wis...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Any dealing with this psalm must necessarily be general and not particular. It has been called the psalm of the Law, not inaccurately; but the term,...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

MEM. Reader! let us listen to these sweet words, as the words of Jesus. Let us beg of God the Holy Ghost to give us grace to feel and know our inter...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I understand more than the ancients ,.... Than those that had lived in ages before him; having clearer light given him, and larger discoveries made...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. Ver. 100. I understand more than the ancients ] Whom yet age, use, and experienc...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

MEM. Psalms 119:97 . O how I love thy law! O Lord, thou knowest my love to it is inexpressible: to then I appeal herein against all the censu...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all m...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

By which reason he intimates that the practice of religion is the best way to understand it, and that men's vicious hearts and lives are the greatest...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril ( Psalms 119:9 ;...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 119:99-100 By obeying the commands of Scripture we learn that these commands really come from God; by trying we make proof; by doing we com...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 119:89 . For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. It is not a changeable or vanishing thing: «Thy word is settled,» settled for ev...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 119:89 . For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. Other things come, and go, and change, moons wax and wane, tides ebb and flow, e...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

That David was the author of this psalm, no one ever doubted. It is divided into twenty two octo-distichs, having a letter of the Hebrew alphabet at...
The Biblical Illustrator

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for Thy testimonies are my meditation. Inward virtues to the truth of the Gospel 1. By obeying...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses,...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Mem. God's Word the Essence of True Wisdom.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I understand more than the ancients, those advanced in years, for age is no help against stupidity, if old people refuse to bow to the wisdom of God'...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Because — The practice of religion is the best way to understand it.

¹⁰⁰ I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 119:100

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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

Sermon Bible Commentary

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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 119:100