Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 16:23
Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; show forth from day to day his salvation.
23 33 (= Psa 96:1-13)
23. Sing unto the Lord ] In Psa 96:1-2 this burden is thrice repeated; in Chron. it is once given. Note that 23 b corresponds with 2 b of the Ps.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
1Ch 16:23-24
Declare His glory among the heathen.
Declaring Gods glory
I. Declare among the heathen the glory of Gods perfections, that they may acknowledge Him as the true God.
II. Declare the glory of His salvation, that they may accept Him as their only Redeemer.
III. Declare the glory of His providence, that they may confide in Him as their faithful guardian.
IV. Declare the glory of His word, that they may prize it as their chief treasure.
V. Declare the glory of His service, that they may choose it as their chief occupation.
VI. Declare the glory or His residence, that they may seek it m their best home. (William Jackson.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
[See comments on Ps 95:1]
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Praise Continues, vs. 23-36
This last section of David’s psalm begins with an evangelistic challenge: Sing to the Lord and bear daily testimony of His salvation; declare His glory and show His marvelous works to the heathen world. Their gods are but idols, whereas the God of David is to be feared above all for He is the Creator of all. From here the psalm continues to laud the Lord God for glory and honor, strength and gladness. All kindreds of the earth should give Him the glory due His name, bring Him offering, worship Him in the beauty of holiness. He is due reverent fear, for His it is who keeps the world and establishes it.
The whole universe is called on to rejoice and men to preach His universal pre-eminence. Nature is spoken to as animate members of the creation; the roar of the sea, the growing fields, the soughing of the trees are portrayed as sounds of joy in the Lord. All should give thanks to the Lord for His everlasting goodness and mercy. Verse 33 shows the supreme reason, He comes to judge the world and to make things right again in the universe. David ends the psalm with a prayer that the Lord keep His people from subjection to the heathen, that He will gather them to give thanks to His holy name. “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for ever and ever.” The people responded to their king with a hearty, “Amen!” and praised the Lord with him.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
(23-33) See Psalms 96. This psalm, in the Psalter, consists of five strophes or stanzas of six lines eachan artistic arrangement which has been violated here. The subject is the extension of Jehovahs kingdom over all the world, a thought familiar to the readers of the Book of Isaiah, where most of the ideas and phrases of the psalm may be found.
(23) Sing unto the Lord, all the earth.The second line of the psalm. The spirited opening of the psalm is purposely weakened, by omission of the first and third lines, in order to make it fit in here. Strophe I. is thus compressed into four lines (1Ch. 16:23-24).
All the earth.All the land (of Israel).
Shew forth.Heb., tell the (good) news of.
His salvation.Deliverance (from exile).
(24) Heathen.Nations (1Ch. 16:31).
(25-27) Strophe II. of the psalm. Jehovah is the Creator; other gods are nonentities.
(25) He also.And he. The conjunction is not in Psalms 96, and is a prosaic addition of the compiler. (Comp. 1Ch. 16:20.)
(26) People.Peoples.
Idols (llm).A favourite expression in Isaiah.
(27) Strength and gladness are in his place.Psa. 96:6 : Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. The psalmists idea of the heavenly temple seems to have been understood of the earthly; and then his phrase was altered as unsuitable.
Gladness (hedwh).A late word, occurring again in Neh. 8:10 only. Beauty (tiphreth) is ancient.
His placei.e., the tent of the Ark on Mount Zion. (Comp. 1Ch. 15:1; 1Ch. 15:3.)
(28, 29) Strophe III. of the psalm, mutilated. A call to all nations to come and worship in the Temple of Jehovah.
(28) Kindreds of the people.Clans (races) of the peoples.
(29) So far each verse of this ode has symmetrically consisted of two clauses. The present verse has threeanother mark of awkward compilation.
Come before him.Psalms 96, into his courts, that is, the Temple courts: an expression modified here to suit another application.
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.Rather, bow ye down to Jehovah, in holy vestments. This line ought to be the first of the next couplet.
(30) Fear (plural).Literally, Writhe ye.
Before him.The preposition is a compound form common in the Chronicles; in the psalm it is simple.
The world also shall be stable.A line, which precedes this in the psalm, is omitted here, to the detriment of the sense. That lineSay ye among the nations, Jehovah is kingbegins the fourth strophe of the original hymn, but is here strangely transferred to 1Ch. 16:31.
(31) Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice.In the Hebrew, the initial letters of these words form an acrostic of the sacred Name of Jehovah; and those of the first half of 1Ch. 16:32 make up Iahu, another form of the Name.
And let men say.An adaptation of Psa. 96:10 : Say ye among the nations.
(32) Let the fields rejoice.Here begins the fifth strophe of the original psalm.
Fields.Heb., the field, or open country. Psalms 96 has an archaic spelling of the word (sdai), which is here modernised (sdh).
Rejoice.Exult (not the same word as in 1Ch. 16:31).
(33) At the presence of.The compound preposition of 1Ch. 16:30. The climax of the psalmHe shall judge the world in righteousness, and peoples in his faithfulnessis here omitted; and this long and heterogeneous composition terminates with verses borrowed from a third source.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Ch 16:23 Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation.
Ver. 23. Sing unto the Lord. ] See Psa 96:1 , &c See Trapp on “ Psa 96:1 “ &c
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Sing: 1Ch 16:9, Psa 96:1-13, Exo 15:21, Psa 30:4, Isa 12:5
show forth: Psa 40:10, Psa 71:15, Isa 51:6-8
Reciprocal: 1Ch 16:8 – Give thanks 1Ch 16:30 – before him Psa 66:1 – all ye lands