Yet in this psalm, god appears as the divine monarch, the one who. Book of psalms overview insight for living ministries. We look, for example, to the words of the psalmist, who tells us to make a joyful noise. David was responsible for many of them, composing seventythree psalms. Some psalms name their author in the first line or title.
Those who serve the lord should do it with gladness. The temple was a special house for god in jerusalem. A call to praise the lord, a psalm of praise, make a joyful noise unto the lord. Psalms 101 chapter 100 it is with good reason that many sing this psalm very frequently in their religious assemblies, for it is very proper both to express and to excite pious and devout affections towards god in our approach to him in holy ordinances. Psalm 100 commentary by joel lemon working preacher. This wellknown psalm, emphasizing the universal nature of gods kingship, is a benediction to the series of psalms which are occupied with the lords kingdom rule psalms 93, 95 to 100. But when it comes to worshipping yahweh, psalm 100 claims that its very.
Perhaps it was when they built the temple again 80 years after the king of babylon destroyed it. The following authors and the psalms attributed to them are listed below. There should never be a question in our mind to who god is, or why we worship him. The jews say it was penned to be sung with their thankofferings. In fact, david only wrote about half of the psalms73 out of all 150, to be.
David guzik commentary on psalm 100, which speaks of all the earth coming to worship god, entering. Adam, melchizedek, abraham, 1 moses, heiman, yedutun, asaph, and the three sons of korach. This is the only psalm bearing this precise inscription. In fact, psalms includes more authors than any other book of the bible. People who have translated the psalm range from martin luther to catherine parr, and. Although only psalm 90 is directly attributed to moses, it is conventional jewish doctrine that moses composed all of psalms 90 to 100, and this. The greeks think it was written by david, who here invites all the world to join with the israelites in the service of god, whose divine sovereignty he here recognises. Psalm 100 is the 100th psalm in the hebrew bible of the book of psalms. The psalms were all written anonymously over a period of more than two hundred years, during and after the babylonian exile. It is with good reason that many sing this psalm very frequently in their religious. Commentary on psalms 100 by matthew henry blue letter bible. Leonard bernstein set the hebrew text of psalm 100 to music in his chichester psalms, the whole psalm forming the majority of the first movement. Let us sing the old hundredth is one of the everyday expressions of the. David composed the book of psalms through ten elders.
Psalm 100 explained discover the 66 books of the bible. The word praise in the superscription is actually the word. Solomon wrote one or two, and ethan and heman the ezrahites were responsible for two others. Psalms 100 commentary matthew henry commentary on the.
The epistle to the romans, written by paul, quotes or references it more than fourteen times. Psalm 100 concludes this minicollection of psalms focusing on the. Collectively, all 150 chapters of the psalms constitute the largest book in the entire bible. One of the first chapters of scripture i memorized was psalm 100. In fact, david only wrote about half of the psalms73 out of all 150, to be precise though the latin vulgate and septuagint credit a few more to him. We find lingering in it notes of the same great harmony. This time of year gives us the opportunity to be thankful for so many things. If we are right in regarding psalms 9399 as forming one continuous series, one great prophetic oratorio, whose title is jehovah is king, and through which there runs the same great idea, this psalm may be regarded as the doxology which closes the strain. The psalm tells everybody to come to the temple and tell god how great he is. But apart from those proselytes who had converted to the hebrew faith.
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