Ezr 3:10-11, Neh 12:24, 27, 43-46, Psa 81:2, 92:1-3, 150:3-5 | TSK | STEP | when the builders. they set. trumpets. the sons of Asaph. after the ordinance.

A.M. 3559. B.C. 445. the dedication.Jerusalem was the holy city, and the wall was built under the immediate superintendence and blessing of Jehovah: it was therefore proper that it should be dedicated to that God who was there worshipped by solemn praises, prayers, and sacrifices. The dedication seems to have consisted in processions of the most eminent persons around the walls, with thanksgivings to God, who had enabled them to bring the work to so happy a conclusion; and, no doubt, to all this were added a particular consecration of the city to God, and the most earnest invocation that He would take it under His guardianship, and defend it and its inhabitants against their enemies.

De 20:5; Ps 30:1; *title

out.

11:20; 1Ch 15:4,12; 25:6; 26:31; 2Ch 5:13; 29:4-11,30; Ezr 8:15-20

gladness.

8:17; De 16:11; 2Sa 6:12; 2Ch 29:30; Ezr 6:16; Ps 98:4-6; 100:1,2

Php 4:4

thanksgivings.

1Ch 13:8; 15:16,28; 16:5,42; 23:5; 25:1-6; 2Ch 5:13; 7:6

Ezr 3:10,11; Ps 81:1-4; 92:1-3; 149:3; 150:2-5; Re 5:8

Nehemiah 12:43-46

offered.

Nu 10:10; De 12:11,12; 1Ch 29:21,22; 2Ch 7:5-7,10; 29:35,36

Ps 27:6

God.

2Ch 20:27; Job 34:29; Ps 28:7; 30:11,12; 92:4; Isa 61:3; 66:10-14

Jer 33:11; Joh 16:22

the wives also.

Ex 15:20,21; 2Ch 20:13; Ps 148:11-13; Jer 31:13; Mt 21:9,15

Eph 5:19; Jas 5:13

the joy.

1Sa 4:5; Ezr 3:13

some.

10:37-39; 13:5,12,13; 2Ch 13:11,12; 31:11-13

chambers.

1Ch 9:26; 26:21-26

of the law. that is, appointed by the law. Judah rejoiced.Heb. the joy of Judah. Levites.

Nu 3:10; 8:24,25; 1Ch 23:28; 2Ch 5:11,12; Pr 8:34; Isa 40:31

Ro 12:7

waited. Heb. stood.

the singers.

1Ch 25:1-26:32

the ward.That is, they suffered no unclean person to enter the temple.

1Ch 23:28; 2Ch 23:6

and Asaph.

1Ch 25:1-31; 2Ch 29:30; Ps 73:1; *title

Ps 83:1; *title

Psalms 81:2

92:3; 95:1,2; 149:1-3; Mr 14:26; Eph 5:19; Col 3:16; Jas 5:13

Psalms 92:1-3

1 The prophet exhorts to praise God,

4 for his great works;

6 for his judgments on the wicked;

10 and for his goodness to the godly.

A.M. cir 3464. B.C. cir 540. (Title.) A Psalm.Calmet and others suppose this Psalm to have been composed by some of the Levites during or near the close of the Babylonian captivity, acknowledging the mercy of God, and foreseeing the destruction of their enemies, and their own return to Jerusalem and the temple service.

for.

Isa 58:13,14; Heb 4:9; *marg:

Re 4:8-11

good.

33:1; 50:23; 52:9; 54:6; 73:28; 107:1,8,15,21,22; 135:3; 147:1

Eph 5:19; Heb 13:15

most.

8; 82:6; Isa 57:15; Da 4:34-37; 5:18; Ac 7:48,49

shew.

71:15; 89:1,2; 145:2; Isa 63:7; La 3:22,23; Joh 1:17

every night. Heb. in the nights.

42:8; 77:2; Job 35:10; Ac 16:25