Paul Kretzmann Commentary - 1 Chronicles 16:7 - 16:36

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Paul Kretzmann Commentary - 1 Chronicles 16:7 - 16:36


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David's Psalm of Praise

v. 7. Then, on that day, David delivered first this psalm, to thank the Lord, into the hand of Asaph and his brethren,
for use in the public worship at the Tabernacle (the hymn, as here recorded, is almost identical with Psalms 96; Cf also Psa_105:1-15; Psa_106:47-48):

v. 8. Give thanks unto the Lord, call upon His name,
in acknowledgment of His Godhead, make known His deeds among the people.

v. 9. Sing unto Him, sing psalms unto Him, talk ye of all His wondrous works.

v. 10. Glory ye in His holy name,
in proud praise; let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

v. 11. Seek the Lord and His strength,
in firm trust and confidence; seek His face continually. So this first strophe is a summons to praise the Lord and to seek His face.

v. 12. Remember His marvelous works that He hath done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth,
in dealing justly both with His own people and with His enemies,

v. 13. O ye seed of Israel, His servant, ye children of Jacob, His chosen ones.

v. 14. He is the Lord, our God; His judgments are in all the earth,
unmistakably plain to everyone that cares to see them, the strophe being a summons to consider the Lord's ways and judgments.

v. 15. Be ye mindful always of His covenant, the Word which He commanded to a thousand generations,
as it was given from Mount Sinai and, before that, to the patriarchs;

v. 16. even of the covenant which He made with Abraham, and of His oath unto Isaac;

v. 17. and hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

v. 18. saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance
(there is a Messianic element in these lines, and the entire strophe is a summons to keep His wonderful covenant in mind, to trust in the Messiah and His work),

v. 19. when ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it,
namely, the families of the patriarchs.

v. 20. And when they went from nation to nation and from one kingdom to another people,
as in the journeys of Abraham and Isaac to Philistia and Egypt, and that of Jacob to Mesopotamia,

v. 21. He suffered no man to do them wrong,
as the history of each of the patriarchs shows; yea, He reproved kings for their sakes, Gen_12:17; Gen_20:3,

v. 22. saying, Touch not Mine anointed, and do My prophets no harm;
for everyone of the patriarchs was, at the same time, a prophet of Jehovah, and the remembrance of the Lord's protection afforded to their fathers was to keep the descendants in the fear of Jehovah.

v. 23. Sing unto the Lord, all the earth,
His praise should not be confined to the children of Israel; show forth from day to day His salvation, the deliverance wrought through the Messiah.

v. 24. Declare His glory among the heathen, His marvelous works among all nations;
for the missionary spirit has actuated the believers of all times.

v. 25. For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; He also is to be feared above all gods,
ever thing that bears that name.

v. 26. For all the gods of the people,
of the heathen nations far and wide, are idols, literally, "vanities, nothingnesses"; but the Lord made the heavens.

v. 27. Glory and honor are in His presence; strength and gladness are in His place,
strength and beauty in His Sanctuary, for which reason all the world should join in the praise of His greatness.

v. 28. Give unto the Lord, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength.

v. 29. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name; bring an offering, and come before Him; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness,
in a manner harmonizing with the majesty of His holiness.

v. 30. Fear before Him, all the earth,
in the veneration due to His glorious Godhead; the world also shall be stable, firmly established, that it be not moved.

v. 31. Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; and let men say among the nations, The Lord reigneth,
this being the message which the believers of all times are to bring to all men.

v. 32. Let the sea roar and the fulness thereof; let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein,
the very forces of inanimate nature being appealed to in properly picturing the glory of the Lord.

v. 33. Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the Lord, because He cometh to judge the earth,
and even the inanimate things of creation will exult before His coming to Judgment, since it will result in their being delivered from the bondage of sin, Romans 8.

v. 34. O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy endureth forever,
this again being a summons addressed to the believers in particular.

v. 35. And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to Thy holy name, and glory in Thy praise,
for the elect of the Lord will be assembled from every nation and tongue and people.

v. 36. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel forever and ever.
The same doxology is found at the close of the fourth book of the Psalter, Psa_116:19. And all the people, signifying their glad assent to the entire hymn in all its parts, just as believers do today, said, Amen, and praised the Lord.