Psalms 108:7

God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
God	אֱלֹהִ֤ים 'E.lo.Him	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · noun, common masculine plural absolute
spoken	דִּבֶּ֥ר di.Ber	H1696	perhaps properly · verb, piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
holiness	בְּקָדְשׁ֗וֹ be.ka.de.Sho	H6944	a sacred place or thing · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
rejoice	אֶעְלֹ֥זָה 'e'.Lo.zah	H5937	to jump for joy · verb, qal infinitive construct, 1st person common singular
divide	אֲחַלְּקָ֥ה 'a.cha.le.Kah	H2505	to be smooth (figuratively) · verb, piel infinitive construct, 1st person common singular
Shechem	שְׁכֶ֑ם she.Khem	H7927	Shekem · proper noun, a place name
out	אֲמַדֵּֽד 'a.ma.Ded	H4058	properly · verb, piel imperfect, 1st person common singular
valley	וְעֵ֖מֶק ve.'E.mek	H6010	a vale (i.e. broad depression) · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct
Succoth	סֻכּ֣וֹת su.Kot	H5523	Succoth · proper noun, a place name

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

1 Peter 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
Joshua 20:7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of…
2 Peter 1:3-4 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath cal…
Joshua 17:7 And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inha…
Joshua 24:1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and…
Judges 8:5-6 And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing…
2 Samuel 7:20-29 And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.
Psalms 16:9-11 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 108:6–end

We may here learn how to pray as well as praise. 1. We must be public-spirited in prayer, and bear upon our hearts, at the throne of grace, the concerns of the church of God, Psa 108:6. It is God's beloved, and therefore must be ours; and therefore we must pray for its deliverance, and reckon that we are answered if God grant what we ask for his church, though he delay to give us what we ask for ourselves. "Save thy church, and thou answerest me; I have what I would have." Let the earth be filled with God's glory, and the prayers of David are ended (Psa 72:19, Psa 72:20); he desires no more. 2. We must, in prayer, act faith upon the power and promise of God - upon his power (Save with thy ri…

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John Gill on Psalms 108:6

That thy beloved may be delivered,.... From hence to the end of the psalm the words are taken out of Psalm 60:5. See Gill on Psalm 60:5.

John Calvin on Psalms 108:1–end

Psalm 108:1-13 A Song or Psalm of David. 1. My heart is prepared, O God! my heart is prepared; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. 2. Awake, psaltery and harp: I will arise at break of day. 3. I will praise thee, O Jehovah! among the people; and sing unto thee among the nations: 4. Because thy goodness is great above the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. 5. Be thou, O God! exalted above the heavens; and thy glory above all the earth: 6. That thy chosen may be set free, save me by thy right hand, and hear me. 7. God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure the valley of Succoth. 8. Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the stre…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 108:6–end

Ps. 60:7-14 forms this second half. The clause expressing the purpose with למען, as in its original, has the following הושׁיעה for its principal clause upon which it depends. Instead of ועננוּ, which one might have expected, the expression used here is וענני without any interchange of the mode of writing and of reading it; many printed copies have ועננו here also; Baer, following Norzi, correctly has וענני. Instead of ולי...לי, Psa 60:9, we here read לי...לי, which is less soaring. And instead of Cry aloud concerning me, O Philistia do I shout for joy (the triumphant cry of the victor); in accordance with which Hupfeld wishes to take התרועעי in the former as infinitive: "over (עלי instead of…

The Church Fathers

"God has spoken in his holy one": whether in the temple, or in each one of the saints, or in a prophet. He is heard in Moses, he is heard in an apostle; and more truly I say, he has spoken in his Son. What, then, has God spoken? These things that follow. "I will be exalted, and I will divide Shechem." For this reason, he says, I am crucified, that I may divide Shechem. "Shechem" is interpreted in our language as "shoulders." And "shoulders" are interpreted as "works." The sense, then, is this: for this reason I am crucified, that I may divide my works among my saints; for this reason I am crucified, that I may lay my sweet yoke and my light burden upon the necks of men. You have done, O Lord, what you promised: you have been exalted, and you have divided Shechem. "And I will measure out the valley of tabernacles." Truly our Lord and Savior entered down into this valley of tears, into the place of our lowliness, that is, into this world. However holy a man may be in this world, he does not yet know as he ought to know. "For we know in part, and we prophesy in part."
— Jerome, Homily 34, on Psalm 107

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Dictionary and topics

Succoth · .Lo — .Lo

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 108:7

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 108:6–end

John Gill on Psalms 108:6

John Calvin on Psalms 108:1–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 108:6–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 108:7

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 108:6–end

John Gill on Psalms 108:6

John Calvin on Psalms 108:1–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 108:6–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 108:1–end

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 108:7