Psalm 139:7-8

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 139:1-24

Psalms 139:1-24O Lord, Thou hast searched me, and known me.God’s exhaustive knowledge of manThis lyric has always been the subject of praise. Aben Ezra said there was none like it in the five books. Lord Brougham spoke of it as “that singularly beautiful poem” Herder said that language utterly failed him in its exposition. Erskine of Llinlathen wanted this to be before him on his death-bed. The title ascribes it to David, an ascription corroborated by its originality and majesty and its... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 139:7-10

Psalms 139:7-10Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? The omnipresence of GodI. Lay down some positions.1. God is intimately and essentially in all parts and places of the world. One of the heathen, being asked to give a description of what God was, tells us most admirably, “God is a sphere, whose centre is every-where, and whose circumference is nowhere”: a raised apprehension of the Divine nature in a heathen! And another, being demanded what God was, made answer, that “God is an Infinite... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 139:8

Psalms 139:8If I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art there.God’s presence in the under-worldWe are told that the Jew had no knowledge of a heaven for the soul, that the only future he knew was that of a mysterious under-world where the spirits of the dead reposed. It is this under-world which the psalmist here designates by the word translated “hell”; it is the universal Old Testament name for the place of the dead. But, in the hands of this writer, the under-world becomes well-nigh as fair... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 139:7

Psa 139:7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? Ver. 7. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? ] Here he argueth God’s omniscience from his omnipresence; and this the heathens also had heard of, as appeareth by their Iovis omnia plena; and - quascunque accesseris oras, Sub Iove semper eris, &c. Empedocles could say that God is a circle, whose centre is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere. They could tell us that God is the soul of the world;... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 139:8

Psa 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there]. Ver. 8. If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there ] That is thy proper place; and there Aristotle, in his Book of the World, ad Alexandrum affirmeth that God is only essentialiter et actu. This was to proclaim himself an arrant atheist; for God filleth all places, and is comprehended of no place, being totally present wheresoever present; for we must not conceive that God is... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 139:7

Jeremiah 23:23, Jeremiah 23:24, Jonah 1:3, Jonah 1:10, Acts 5:9 Reciprocal: Exodus 20:18 - they removed Joshua 10:16 - and hid 1 Kings 8:27 - the heaven 2 Chronicles 6:18 - heaven Jeremiah 43:8 - General Hosea 7:13 - fled Amos 9:2 - dig Matthew 2:19 - an read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 139:8

I ascend: Ezekiel 28:12-Esther :, Amos 9:2-Numbers :, Obadiah 1:4 in hell: Job 26:6, Job 34:21, Job 34:22, Proverbs 15:11, Jonah 2:2 Reciprocal: Exodus 20:18 - they removed Job 17:13 - I have made Psalms 16:10 - my Jeremiah 51:53 - mount Ezekiel 32:25 - set her read more

John Wesley

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 139:1-24

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 139:7-10

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 139:8

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 139:7

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 139:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 139:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 139:8

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 139:8

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 139:7

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 139:8

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