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Verse Psalms 81:4. _THIS_ WAS _A STATUTE FOR ISRAEL_] See the statute,
Numbers 10:10, and Leviticus 23:24....
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FOR THIS WAS A STATUTE FOR ISRAEL ... - See Exodus 12:3. That is, it
was a law for the whole Jewish people, for all who had the name
Israel, for all the descendants of Jacob. The word was is not in th...
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Psalms 81
Hope Revived: His Gracious Return to Israel
_ 1. The blowing of the trumpet (Psalms 81:1)_
2. His loving call to His people (Psalms 81:6)
3. Gracious results promised ...
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LXXXI. This Ps. is probably composite.
A. PSALMS 81:1. A FESTAL HYMN, specially adapted for the old New
Year's Day or Feast of Trumpets (p. 104), which was held on the new
moon of Tishri, the seventh...
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The reason for the celebration in the divine appointment of the
festival as a memorial of God's goodness to Israel....
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For it is a statute for Israel,
An ordinance of the God of Jacob. (R.V.)
_It_refers to the feast. The title _God of Jacob_carries our thoughts
back beyond the Exodus to the providential dealings of...
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PSALMS 81
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
A Mission-Song, to be Sung to the Northern Tribes.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 81:1-5, A Festive Celebration Invoked; in which
People, Levites, and Priests can Recall the...
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After a summons to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles (Psalms 81:1)
this Ps. recalls the meaning of Israel's national festivals as
memorials of their deliverance from Egypt (Psalms 81:4). From Psalms...
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Psalms 73:89
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
START THE MUSIC!
PSALMS 81
Jesus said, "Can the bridegroom’s friends be sad when the
bridegroom is with them?" (Matthew
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FOR THIS. — Better, _for it is a statute._ Referring either to the
feast itself or to the mode of celebrating it.
LAW. — Literally, _judgment,_ as LXX. and Vulg....
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_[Psalms 81:5]_ כִּ֤י חֹ֣ק לְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל
ה֑וּא...
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Psalms 81:1
THE psalmist summons priests and people to a solemn festival,
commemorative of Israel's deliverance from Egypt, and sets forth the
lessons which that deliverance teaches, the learning of w...
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SING UNTO GOD, THE DELIVERER
Psalms 81:1
It is supposed that this psalm was composed for use at the great
Hebrew festivals and especially at the Passover, which is referred to
in Psalms 81:5; Psalms...
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This is a psalm for the Feast of Trumpets. In the calendar of the
Hebrews this feast prepared the way for the Day of Atonement and the
Feast of Tabernacles. The first day of the seventh month was the...
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Moses appointed certain seasons of memorial; such, for example, as the
passover; Exodus 12:23....
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4_For this is a statute to Israel. _To give the more effect to the
preceding exhortation, it is here taught that this law or ordinance
had been prescribed to God’s ancient people, for the purpose of
r...
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Psalms 81, while celebrating in figure the restoration of Israel,
again returns to historical ground, specially introducing Joseph, who
represents the ten tribes (see Ezekiel 37:16). Otherwise Judah,...
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FOR THIS WAS A STATUTE FOR ISRAEL,.... It was not a piece of will
worship, or device of the children of Israel, but was of divine
institution; that the passover should be kept at the time it was; and...
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For this [was] a statute for Israel, [and] a law of the God of Jacob.
Ver. 4. _For this was a statute_] The keeping of it therefore is not
arbitrary, but necessary: _Aut faciendum aut patiendum._
An...
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_For this was a statute for Israel_ This is no human device, but a
divine institution; God hath appointed and commanded this solemn feast
to be announced and observed in this manner. _This_ Namely, th...
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A JOYFUL SALUTATION AND GOD'S RESPONSE.
To the chief musician upon Gittith, to be sung to the accompaniment of
the zitherlike instrument which David brought along from the
Philistine city of Gath, a...
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For this was a statute, for Israel, pertaining to the precepts
governing the covenant people, AND A LAW OF THE GOD OF JACOB, fixed by
Him to regulate the customs of the feasts....
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1-7 All the worship we can render to the Lord is beneath his
excellences, and our obligations to him, especially in our redemption
from sin and wrath. What God had done on Israel's behalf, was kept i...
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For this is no human device, but an appointment and command of the
great God, and your Lord....
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Psalms 81:4 statute H2706 Israel H3478 law H4941 God H430 Jacob H3290...
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We have here an exhortation to praise God; and this is always in
season. Perhaps we need more stirring up to praise than to prayer, yet
it ought to be as natural for us to praise God as it is for the...
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Psalms 81:1. _Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise
unto the God of Jacob._
In these days, the Psalm would have to be altered if they are to suit
the dogmas of modern thought, for «th...
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CONTENTS: God chides His people for their ingratitude and pictures
their happy state had they but obeyed Him.
CHARACTERS: God, Asaph, Joseph, Jacob.
CONCLUSION: God gives those up to their own heart...
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This psalm was composed for the festival of tabernacles, when the
people celebrated the deliverance from Egypt. It was a statute in
Israel on the first day of the Hebrew month of _Tisri,_ or the new
m...
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_Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of
Jacob._
A REVELATION OF THREE GREAT SUBJECTS
I. True worship (verses1-5)
1. True worship is the highest happiness, which consi...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 81:1. This psalm resembles the OT
prophets’ oracles, so perhaps it is best to think of it as a
prophetic hymn. The primary function of the OT prophets is to
challenge God’s...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 81:4 THE GOD OF JACOB worked on behalf of his
people to deliver them from slavery in EGYPT (see Exodus 6:6)....
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician upon Gittith_.”
Gittith is explained in several ways. One interpretation is that it
was a musical instrument invented in Gath, or common among th...
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EXPOSITION
PROFESSOR CHEYNE regards this psalm as composed of "two distinct
lyrical passages," accidentally thrown together (compare his theory of
Psalms 19:1, Psalms 24:1, Psalms 36:1
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Let's turn to Psalms 81:1-16.
On the first day of the seventh month in the Jewish calendar, which,
because their calendar begins, the religious calendar begins the first
of April, it usually coincides...
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Exodus 15:25; Genesis 18:19; Genesis 18:25; Leviticus 5:10; Psalms 1:5