Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 19:10
More to be (i) desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
(i) Unless God's word is esteemed above all worldly things, it is contemned.
More to be (i) desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
(i) Unless God's word is esteemed above all worldly things, it is contemned.
Verse Psalms 19:10. _MORE TO BE DESIRED_ ARE THEY _THAN GOLD_] This is strictly true; but who believes it? By most men _gold_ is preferred both to _God_ and his _judgments_; and they will barter every...
MORE TO BE DESIRED ARE THEY THAN GOLD - That is, his law; or, as in the preceding verse, his judgments. They are more valuable than gold; they are of such a nature that the soul should more desire to...
Psalms 19 Christ in Creation and in Revelation __ 1 In creation (Psalms 19:1) 2. In revelation (Psalms 19:7) Psalms 19:1
XIX. A. PSALMS 19:1. THE REVELATION OF GOD IN NATURE. A fragment of a longer poem. Day and night are pictured as living beings who hand on the tradition of God's creative act from age to age (see Job...
Yet more wonderful than this declaration of God's glory, more beneficent than the sun's life-giving light and heat, is Jehovah's revelation of His will, which quickens and educates man's moral nature....
Such is the law in all its parts; a treasure to be coveted; the sweetest of enjoyments when received into the heart. Cp. Psalms 119:72; Psalms 119:103; Psalms 119:127. _the honeycomb_ Lit. the droppin...
DISCOURSE: 521 THE USE AND BENEFIT OF THE SCRIPTURES Psalms 19:10. _More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey, and the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is t...
SWEETER ALSO THAN HONEY AND THE HONEY-COMB— There is no great difference made among _us_ between the delicacy of honey in the comb, and after its separation from it. We may therefore be at a loss to e...
PSALMS 19 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Greater than the Glory of God in the Heavens is the Grace of Jehovah in the Law. ANALYSIS A Composite Psalm: in which, by the mere force of Juxtaposition, the Grace of J...
_MORE TO BE DESIRED ARE THEY THAN GOLD, YEA, THAN MUCH FINE GOLD: SWEETER ALSO THAN HONEY AND THE HONEYCOMB._ More to be desired ... fine gold. The law understood in its spiritual, reviving, and joy-...
This Ps. falls into two well-marked divisions. Psalms 19:1 describe the glory of God (_El_) as seen in the heavenly bodies, especially the sun, and are thus parallel to Psalms 8; Psalms 19:7 deal with...
THE HONEYCOMB] rather, 'the droppings of the honeycomb,' the purest of the honey....
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
HONEYCOMB. — (See margin.) The honey that drops from the comb is the finest and purest....
_[Psalms 19:11]_ הַֽ נֶּחֱמָדִ֗ים מִ֭ זָּהָב וּ...
Psalms 19:1 Is this originally one psalm or bits of two, pieced together to suggest a comparison between the two sources of knowledge of God, which the authors did not dream of? The affirmative is str...
THE WORKS AND THE WORD OF GOD Psalms 19:1 This is the “Psalm of the Two Books”-Nature and Scripture. If Psalms 8:1 were written at night, Psalms 19:1 was surely written by day. In...
The burden of this psalm is the twofold revelation of Jehovah. He is revealed in Nature and in law. Yet in Nature Jehovah is revealed as God and not by those especial qualities suggested by the great...
Here the sacred writer makes a beautiful transition from the works of nature to contemplate the works of grace. Having celebrated the praises of Jehovah in his outward courts, he now enters the inner...
Psalms 19 _ Proper Psalm for Christmas Day_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 19-21 = _ Day 4_ (_Morning_)....
10._More to be desired are they than gold. _The Psalmist now exalts the law of God both on account of its price and sweetness. This commendation depends on the commendations given in the preceding ver...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 18 AND 19. Psalms 18 presents to us the connection of Christ, and particularly of His (not atoning suffering that is found in Psalms 22, but His) entering into t...
MORE TO BE DESIRED [ARE THEY] THAN GOLD,.... This refers to all the truths in the word of God; to all the doctrines of the Gospel; which, by good men, are more desirable, and by them more prized and v...
More to be desired [are they] than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Ver. 10. _More to be desired are they than gold_] Old people are all for profit, young fo...
_More to be desired are they than gold_ Than the wealth of this world, although so generally preferred before them; _yea, than much fine gold_ Than gold of the best quality, and in the greatest quanti...
More to be desired are they, the contents of the Word, than gold, yea, THAN MUCH FINE GOLD, SWEETER ALSO THAN HONEY AND THE HONEYCOMB, the droppings of honeycombs, on account of the incomparably beaut...
A PROPHECY OF THE GOSPEL. Luther says of this psalm that it is a prophecy of the Gospel as it was intended to go forth into all the world, as wide as the heavens extend, and to be proclaimed and taug...
THE HONEYCOMB: _ Heb._ the dropping of honeycombs...
7-10 The Holy Scripture is of much greater benefit to us than day or night, than the air we breathe, or the light of the sun. To recover man out of his fallen state, there is need of the word of God....
THAN MUCH FINE GOLD; than gold of the best quality, and in the greatest quantity. SWEETER ALSO THAN HONEY; which was most sweet in those Eastern countries. THE HONEYCOMB; than that honey which the bee...
Psalms 19:10 desired H2530 (H8737) gold H2091 much H7227 gold H6337 Sweeter H4966 honey H1706 honeycomb H5317...
GOD SPEAKS THROUGH HIS WORD AND COVENANT (PSALMS 19:7). Psalms 19:7 ‘ The instruction (law) of YHWH is perfect, restoring the soul, The testimony of YHWH is sure, making wise the simple. For the In...
Psalms 19:10 I. The value of the law, as compared with gold, may be measured by the good it does; its honey sweetness by its manner of doing it. II. The twofold commendation of the law in ver. 10 may...
This Psalm teaches us the excellence of the two revelations which God has made to man. The first is the revelation which he has made in nature, and the second is that which he has made in his inspired...
This Psalm has the same subject as Psalms 119:1. Both of them are full of praise of God's Word. God has written two books for us to read,-the volume of the Creation and the volume of the Sacred Script...
CONTENTS: God's revelation of Himself in the book of nature, book of the law and the book of human life. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God makes Himself known through three great books, all of...
Psalms 19:4. _Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to_ _the end of the world._ The LXX, φθογγος, _phthoggos._ Vulgate, _sonus,_ their _sound;_ the music of their voice. The el...
_More to be desired are they than gold._ THE HOLY SCRIPTURES I. The excellence of the holy scriptures. None are ignorant of the value of money. Money gives access to every other possession. Point out...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 19:1. In singing this psalm, God’s people celebrate his law as his supreme revelation of himself. The psalm recounts the way the creation speaks of its Maker (vv....
INTRODUCTION “This psalm instructs its readers in the glory and goodness of God; first, by directing their contemplation to the structure of the heavens, to the course of the sun, and to the kindly in...
EXPOSITION THE nineteenth psalm is one of meditative praise. The psalmist, looking abroad over the whole world, finds two main subjects for his eulogy—first, the glorious fabric of the material creati...
Chapter 19 is one of the beautiful favorite psalms where David does speak about how God does reveal Himself to man in nature. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handi...
1 Samuel 14:26; Job 23:12; Job 28:15; Proverbs 16:16; Proverbs 24: