Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 1:1-3
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Psalm 1:2 Nkjv,nlt
Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 1:1-6
Psalms 1This psalm is one of the best known and favored in the Psalter. It summarizes the two paths of life open to people, the way of the righteous and the way of the wicked (cf. Deuteronomy 30:11-20; Jeremiah 17:5-8). It also deals with God, godly living, and the hope of the godly in view of the Mosaic Covenant promises. Therefore it is an appropriate one to open the collection of 150 psalms. The editors probably intended it to be an introduction to the whole Psalter for this reason. Its... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 1:2
The godly allows the Word of God (Heb. torah, i.e., instruction that comes from God) to shape his conduct rather than the wicked. One expositor saw Jesus Christ as the ultimately godly person profiled in this psalm. [Note: Harry A. Ironside, Studies on Book One of the Psalms, pp. 8-13.] His meditation on it involves prolonged thinking about it that takes place in study and review throughout the day."Meditation is not the setting apart of a special time for personal devotions, whether morning or... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 1:1-6
This Ps. forms an appropriate introduction to the whole Psalter. In some Hebrew MSS it is not numbered with the Psalms, but stands before them as a prologue, and in others it is combined with Psalms 2. It is one of the ’orphan’ psalms, and the want of a title indicates that it did not originally belong to the Davidic collection, 3-41. The subject of the Ps. is the blessedness of the righteous man who studies the Law of Jehovah, as contrasted with the unhappy end of the ungodly. It consists of... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 1:1-13
Book 1The Pss. in this book are probably among the earliest in the Psalter, and include most of those generally regarded as Davidic. They seem to have existed separately as an early hymn-book, which, with some slight additions from the final editor, was used as the nucleus of the entire collection. They have two wellmarked characteristics: (1) the constant use of the name Jehovah (rendered the Lord), and the comparative absence of the name God (Heb. Elohim); the former occurring 272 times, the... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 1:2
(2) But.—The Hebrew is an elliptical expression implying a strong contrast, “nay but,” “on the contrary.”The positive side of a good man’s character is now described according to the standard which prevailed when the written law first came truly into force.In the law of Jehovah is his delight.—Or, to the law of Jehovah is his inclination. The Hebrew word means primarily “to bend.”Meditate.—Literally, murmur (of a dove, Isaiah 38:14; of men lamenting, Isaiah 16:7; of a lion growling, Isaiah... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 1:1-6
The Tree and the Chaff Psalms 1:1 There is a law to obey which is life; there is a King, to serve Whom is blessedness, and rebellion against Whom is destruction. I. Note first the picture of a fair and fruitful life. If you have not learned to shelter your positive goodness behind a barrier of negative abstinence, there will be little vitality and little fruit in the weakling plants that are trying to blossom in the undefended open, swept by every wind. But then note further how in this... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 1:1-6
Psalms 1:1-6THE Psalter may be regarded as the heart’s echo to the speech of God, the manifold music of its windswept strings as God’s breath sweeps across them. Law and Prophecy are the two main elements of that speech, and the first two psalms, as a double prelude to the book, answer to these, the former setting forth the blessedness of loving and keeping the law, and the latter celebrating the enthronement of Messiah. Jewish tradition says that they were originally one, and a well-attested... read more
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 1:1-6
Analysis and Annotations I. THE GENESIS SECTION: BOOK ONE:Psalm 1-41 Psalm 1-8 Psalms 1:0 The Godly and the Ungodly 1. The godly, his character and his fruit (Psalms 1:1-3 ) 2. The ungodly in comparison with the godly (Psalms 1:4-6 ) The first eight Psalms are the Psalms in embryo, just as the opening chapters of the book of Genesis are the Bible in a nutshell. Throughout the Psalms we can trace the subjects of these eight Psalms, the godly and the ungodly; but especially the great theme... read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 1:2
2. law—all of God's word then written, especially the books of Moses (compare Psalms 119:1; Psalms 119:55; Psalms 119:97, &c.). read more