Verse Psalms 101:4. A froward heart] Rash and headstrong men shall not be employed by me.
I will not know a wicked person.] I will give no countenance to sinners of any kind; and whatever is evil shall be an object of my abhorrence.
A FROWARD HEART SHALL DEPART FROM ME - The word here rendered froward means perverse, false, deceitful, depraved. See the notes at Psalms 18:26. The “idea” here is that of one who is inclined to evil;...
PSALM 101-106 Psalms 101 The Righteous King Speaketh _ 1. The character of the King (Psalms 101:1)_ 2. His righteous demands of His subjects (Psalms 101:4) A Psalm of David. He speaks as kin
CI. THE IDEAL RULER. The main purport is clear. The ideal ruler is faithful to the high standard which he sets before himself (Psalms 101:2_ b_ - Psalms 101:4). He requires (Psalms 101:5) the same str...
FROWARD. perverse (from what is right). WICKED. Hebrew. _ra'a'._...
A FROWARD HEART SHALL DEPART FROM ME— _Perverse hearts shall depart from me: I will not protect him who is evil._ The word עקשׁ _ikkesh,_ rendered _perverse,_ signifies a man of a subtle disposition,...
PSALMS 101 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A King's Resolve to have a pure House and Court and Royal City. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 101:1-2 a, The Theme of Song Announced and Applied to the Conduct becoming, a...
A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. A FROWARD HEART SHALL DEPART FROM ME - (.) So Solomon, David's son, writes in ; . I WILL NOT KNOW A WICKED (PERSON) - r...
101:4 evil. (h-12) Or 'an evil person.'...
This Ps. is the prayer of a ruler, apparently of a king. Many scholars believe that the title which ascribes its authorship to David is correct, and connect it with David's desire to have the ark brou...
NOT KNOW A WICKED _person_] RV 'know no evil thing.'...
Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE KING’S SONG PSALMS 101 Jesus said, "First look for the place where God is king. Do the good things that he does". ...
FROWARD. — See Note, Psalms 18:26....
לֵבָ֣ב עִ֭קֵּשׁ יָס֣וּר מִמֶּ֑נִּי רָ֝֗ע לֹ֣א...
Psalms 101:1 THE contents of this psalm go far towards confirming the correctness of the superscription in ascribing it to David, as Ewald acknowledges. To call it an ideal description of a Jewish kin...
MY RIGHTEOUS PURPOSE Psalms 101:1 This psalm, as the title indicates, was composed by David, probably at the commencement of his reign. It contains a number of resolutions upon which he was prepared...
A fine sense of the fitness of things is exhibited by the editor of the psalter in placing this psalm here. Following immediately upon the songs of the enthroned Jehovah, in which there has been perpe...
_Fire. Cremium denotes any combustible matter. (Columella xii. 19.) (St. Jerome) (Calmet) --- While in mortal sin, our best actions, alms, &c., avail nothing, 1 Corinthians xiii. (Worthington) _...
Nothing can be more beautiful, considered as descriptive of the person and work of Jesus, in the days of his flesh, than what is here said. But such views of perfection, as they are nowhere to be foun...
4_The perverse heart shall depart from me _Some by _perverse heart _understand perfidious men; but this I reject as a sense too forced, and it is moreover inconsistent with the context. As David has a...
Psalms 101 states the principles on which the King will govern His house and the land when He takes the kingdom in the name of Jehovah. Psalms 93 is the thesis, Jehovah reigns: the rage of men, the su...
A FROWARD HEART SHALL DEPART FROM ME,.... A man of a froward heart, that devises frowardness in his heart, and speaks it out with his mouth; that which is perverse, and contrary to the law of God and...
A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked [person]. Ver. 4. _A froward heart shall depart from me_] _i.e._ Say some, I will endeavour to put off the old man with the lusts thereo...
_I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes_ Namely, to look upon it with approbation, or design to practise, countenance, or tolerate it. If any ungodly or unjust thing be suggested to me, whatsoeve...
THE PRINCIPLES OF RIGHT GOVERNMENT. A psalm of David, in which he set forth the guiding rules of his life, especially those of his reign, showing, at the same time, his appreciation of God's mercy to...
A froward heart shall depart from me, one false and perverse in all its plans; I WILL NOT KNOW A WICKED PERSON, he will not indulge in, not even know, wickedness....
A FROWARD HEART; a man of a corrupt mind and wicked life, such as other princes choose and prefer, as being suitable to themselves, and to their wicked designs. SHALL DEPART FROM ME; shall be turned o...
Psalms 101:4 perverse H6141 heart H3824 depart H5493 (H8799) know H3045 (H8799) wickedness H7451 A froward -...
Psalms 101:1. The last Psalm was a Hymn of Thanksgiving, this one is a Psalm of Thanksgiving. I suppose it to have been written by David just when he assumed the throne, when he was about to become ki...
CONTENTS: David's vow to God when he took upon him the charge of the kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The believer should resolve to walk by the rules of Christian prudence and in the wa...
TITLE. _A psalm of David._ All the Versions agree with the Hebrew in this title. Psalms 101:3. _I hate the work of them that turn aside;_ a Hebrew phrase for apostasy to idolatry. Instead of going up...
I will sing of mercy and judgment. ONE MAN IN TWO CHARACTERS This psalm depicts one man in two characters, one comparatively good, the other comparatively evil. Such a man is a fair type of the race...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 101:1. This is a royal psalm about the place of the Davidic monarchy in God’s plan for his people. It explains for David and his heirs the ideal kind of ruler they should be...
INTRODUCTION According to the superscription, this Psalm was composed by David. Three different times in his life have been suggested as the occasion to which the Psalm refers. First, when, upon the d...
EXPOSITION Tins psalm describes the rightful conduct and proper principles of action of an Israelite king. It is regarded by some as a portrait of an ideal ruler, dramatically put into his mouth; by o...
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Psalms 101:1-8; Psalms 101:1-8 is a psalm of David, and David declares in the first verse, I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing ...
2 Corinthians 11:33; 2 Corinthians 6:14; 2 Timothy 2:19; Matthew 7:23;...
Depart — Shall be turned out of my court. Know — Not own nor countenance....