Whoso privily (d) slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
(d) In promising to punish these vices, which are most pernicious in them that are about Kings, he declares that he will punish all.
Verse Psalms 101:5. _WHOSO PRIVILY SLANDERETH HIS NEIGHBOUR_] All flatterers and time-servers, and those who by insinuations and false accusations endeavour to supplant the upright, that they may obta...
WHOSO PRIVILY SLANDERETH HIS NEIGHBOUR - literally, “One who speaks concerning his neighbor in secret.” If a man has any good to say of another, he will be likely to say it openly; if he has any 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...
CUT OFF. destroy. See Psalms 101:8. PROUD HEART. broad of heart: i.e. large and blatant. Compare Proverbs 21:4; Proverbs 21:28;...
WHOSO PRIVILY SLANDERETH HIS NEIGHBOUR— Those who are advanced to places of eminent dignity, trust, and profit, are the objects of hatred and envy; frequently traduced and slandered; and the worst kin...
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...
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. -How the king will act in his public capacity. He will not endure slander...
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...
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". ...
WHOSO... — The “informer” and the “haughty favourite” are no unknown characters in an Oriental court. PROUD HEART. — Literally, _broad,_ that is, extended with pride. (Comp. Proverbs 21:4.) But LXX....
_מְלָשְׁנִ֬י_† בַ † סֵּ֨תֶר ׀ רֵעֵהוּ֮ אֹותֹ֪ו אַ֫צְמִ֥ית...
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...
_Bread. Through excessive sorrow, (Haydock) I am fainting in captivity. (Calmet) --- The human race is relieved by the bread of life, the holy Eucharist. (St. Augustine) (Berthier) --- Sinners have no...
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...
5_Whoso slandereth his neighbor _(130) _in secret, him will I destroy. _In this verse he speaks more distinctly of the duty of a king who is armed with the sword, for the purpose of restraining evil-d...
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...
WHOSO PRIVILY SLANDERETH HIS NEIGHBOUR, HIM WILL I CUT OFF,.... That raises and spreads a false report of him; that insinuates evil things of him; that brings false charges and accusations against him...
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. Ver. 5. _Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour_] Heb. Him that in secret t...
_Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour_ Such as by secret and false informations, and accusations of others, seek to gain my favour, and to advance themselves by the ruin of others; _him will I cut o...
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...
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off, destroying him, putting him to death for his sin; HIM THAT HATH AN HIGH LOOK, an arrogant and haughty bearing, AND A PROUD HEART, puffed up w...
WHOSO PRIVILY SLANDERETH HIS NEIGHBOUR; such as by secret and false informations and accusations of others seek to gain my favour, and to advance themselves by the ruin of others; which are the common...
Psalms 101:5 secretly H5643 slanders H3960 (H8764) (H8675) H3960 (H8781) neighbor H7453 destroy H6789 ...
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...
_Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour._ SINS OF THE TONGUE Mr. Spurgeon used to say that if all men’s sins were divided into two bundles, halt of them would be sins of the tongue. And if any one th...
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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 101:5 The king should promote faithfulness among the people, and this includes protecting the weaker members from those who would do them harm (vv. Psalms 101:5,...
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 ...
1 Corinthians 5:11; 1 Peter 5:5; 1 Peter 5:6; 1 Samuel 2:3; 1 Timoth