From Nave’s Topical Bible
Meditation
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 26Passages listed
- 4Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerningJoshua 1:8Psalms 1:2Psalms 4:4Psalms 19:14Psalms 39:3Psalms 49:3Psalms 63:5Psalms 63:6Psalms 73:12–22Psalms 77:10–12Psalms 104:34Psalms 119:11Psalms 119:15Psalms 119:16Psalms 119:23Psalms 119:48Psalms 119:55Psalms 119:59Psalms 119:78Psalms 119:97–99
- INSTANCE OF
- IsaacGenesis 24:63
The passages, in Bible order (26)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 24:63
Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching.
Commentary on Genesis 24:632 voices
Isaac went out to meditate - לשוח lasuach, to bend down the body, or the mind, or both. He was probably in deep thought, with his eyes fixed upon the ground. What the subject of his meditation was it is useless to inquire; he was a pious man, and could not be triflingly employed.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
Merciful providences are then doubly comfortable, when they find us in the way of our duty: some think Isaac was now praying for good success in this affair, and meditating upon that which was proper to encourage his hope in God concerning it; and now when he sets himself, as it were, upon his watch-tower, to see what God would answer him, he sees the camels coming.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
- Joshua 1:8
This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
Commentary on Joshua 1:81 voice
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth - The law which had already been written by Moses, and from which he and the people were to take all those precepts by which their lives were to be governed. Though there was a copy of the law laid up in the sanctuary, yet this was not sufficient. Joshua must have a copy for himself, and he was to consult it incessantly, that his way might be made prosperous, and that he might have good success.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Psalms 1:2
But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
Commentary on Psalms 1:22 voices
Blessed— see how this Book of Psalms opens with a benediction, even as did the famous Sermon of our Lord upon the Mount! The word translated "blessed" is a very expressive one. The original word is plural, and it is a controverted matter whether it is an adjective or a substantive. Hence we may learn the multiplicity of the blessings which shall rest upon the man whom God hath justified, and the perfection and greatness of the blessedness he shall enjoy. We might read it, "Oh, the blessednesses!"
Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David, Vol. 1, 1869
But his delight is in the law of the Lord - חפצו chephtso, his will, desire, affection, every motive in his heart, and every moving principle in his soul, are on the side of God and his truth. He takes up the law of the Lord as the rule of his life; he brings all his actions and affections to this holy standard. He looketh into the perfect law of liberty; and is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word; and is therefore blessed in his deed.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Psalms 4:4
Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
Commentary on Psalms 4:42 voices
"Tremble and sin not." How many reverse this counsel and sin but tremble not. O that men would take the advice of this verse and commune with their own hearts. Surely a want of thought must be one reason why men are so mad as to despite Christ and hate their own mercies. O that for once their passions would be quiet and let them be still, that so in solemn silence they might review the past, and meditate upon their inevitable doom.
Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David, Vol. 1, 1869
It is said that the greatest of the philosophers granted immunity from punishment to those crimes that had been committed through anger, but the divine Scripture says better: "Be angry, and sin not." It preferred rather to cut off sin than to excuse it. It is better to find praise for mercy in an occasion for indignation than to be incited by wrath toward vengeance.
Ambrose of Milan· ON THE DEATH OF THEODOSIUS 14Patristic
- Psalms 19:14
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Commentary on Psalms 19:142 voices
"Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my Redeemer." A sweet prayer, and so spiritual that it is almost as commonly used in Christian worship as the apostolic benediction. Words of the mouth are mockery if the heart does not meditate; the shell is nothing without the kernel; but both together are useless unless accepted; and even if accepted by man, it is all vanity if not acceptable in the sight of God.
Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David, Vol. 1, 1869
The third division is one of praise that teaches the impossibility of the Law, and since through transgressing it more sin had appeared in the world, the grace of the gospel has been made complete; nor is anyone able to be freed from the filthiness of his thinking except through the advent of the Holy Spirit.
Jerome· BRIEF COMMENTARY ON PSALM 19Patristic
- Psalms 39:3
My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
Commentary on Psalms 39:32 voices
In the Gospel it was written, after the Lord spoke to Cleopas, "Was not our heart burning within us when he opened the Scriptures to us?" Where will you burn? Where will "the coals of fire" be found in you who are never set on fire by the declaration of the Lord, never inflamed by the words of the Holy Spirit? Hear also … David … saying, "My heart burned within me, and in my meditation fire became inflamed." From where do you glow? Where is the fire kindled in you?
Origen of Alexandria· HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 9:9.7Patristic
My heart was hot within me. The friction of inward thoughts produced an intense mental heat. The door of his heart was shut, and with the fire of sorrow burning within, the chamber of his soul soon grew unbearable with heat. Silence is an awful thing for a sufferer, it is the surest method to produce madness. Mourner, tell your sorrow; do it first and most fully to God, but even to pour it out before some wise and godly friend is far from being wasted breath. While I was musing the fire burned.
Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David, Vol. 2, 1870
- Psalms 49:3
My mouth will impart wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will bring understanding.
Commentary on Psalms 49:32 voices
My mouth shall speak of wisdom. Inspired and therefore lifted beyond himself, the prophet is not praising his own attainments, but extolling the divine Spirit which spoke in him. He knew that the Spirit of truth and wisdom spoke through him. He who is not sure that his matter is good has no right to ask a hearing. And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. The same Spirit who made the ancient seers eloquent, also made them thoughtful. The help of the Holy Ghost was never meant to supersede the use of our own mental powers.
Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David, Vol. 2, 1870
My mouth shall speak of wisdom,.... Or "wisdoms" (m); of Christ, who is so called, Pro 1:20. He being as a divine Person the wisdom of God, and the only wise God; and having all the treasures of wisdom in him, as man and Mediator: of him the prophet spake, and of him the apostles and all Gospel ministers speak; of the glories of his Person, of the fulness of his grace, and of his wonderful works; especially of that of redemption and salvation by him, in which there is an abounding of wisdom and prudence.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 63:5
My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.
Commentary on Psalms 63:52 voices
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness. Though unable to feast on the sacrifice at thine altar, my soul shall even here be filled with spiritual joys, and shall possess a complete, a double contentment. There is in the love of God a richness, a sumptuousness, a fulness of soul filling joy, comparable to the richest food with which the body can be nourished.
Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David, Vol. 3, 1872
Now let us turn our attention to the characteristic of fatness or richness of which David speaks intelligibly when he says, "Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness." Before that he had said, "And may your whole burnt offering be made fat." By this he means that the requirements for a sacrifice are that it be fat or rich, that it be glistening and that it be weighted with the sustenance inspired by faith and devotion and by the rich nourishment of the Word of God.
Ambrose of Milan· On Cain and Abel, Book 2, Chapter VPatristic
- Psalms 63:6
When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
Commentary on Psalms 63:62 voices
When I remember thee upon my bed. Lying awake, the good man betook himself to meditation, and then began to sing. He had a feast in the night, and a song in the night. He turned his bedchamber into an oratory, he consecrated his pillow, his praise anticipated the place of which it is written, "There is no night there." Perhaps the wilderness helped to keep him awake, and if so, all the ages are debtors to it for this delightful hymn.
Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David, Vol. 3, 1872
When I remember thee upon my bed,.... Or "beds" (q); seeing he lay in many, as Kimchi observes, being obliged to flee from place to place.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 73:12–22
Behold, these are the wicked— always carefree as they increase their wealth.
Commentary on Psalms 73:12–221 voice
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world. Look! See! Consider! Here is the standing enigma! The crux of Providence! The stumblingblock of faith! Here are the unjust rewarded and indulged, and that not for a day or an hour, but in perpetuity. From their youth up these men, who deserve perdition, revel in prosperity. They deserve to be hung in chains, and chains are hung about their necks; they are worthy to be chased from the world, and yet the world becomes all their own. Poor purblind sense cries, Behold this!
Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David, Vol. 3, 1872
- Psalms 77:10–12
So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
Commentary on Psalms 77:10–121 voice
And I said, Now I have begun. In the Hebrew it reads otherwise: "And I said, It is my weakness" — that is, what I suffer is not from the cruelty of God, but from my sins. This is the change of the right hand of the Most High. That the Lord should have mercy, that he should give his grace to the whole world, that he should not hold back his mercies in his anger — this is the change of the right hand of the Most High.
Jerome· Homily 10, on Psalm 76Patristic
- Psalms 104:34
May my meditation be pleasing to Him, for I rejoice in the LORD.
Commentary on Psalms 104:341 voice
Thus then, being before instructed and taught, they [the people of Israel] learned not to do service to any one but the Lord. They began to know how long the shadow would last and not to forget the time that was at hand, in which no longer should the bullock of the herd be a sacrifice to God, or the ram of the flock or the he-goat, but all these things should be fulfilled in a purely spiritual manner and by constant prayer and upright conversation, with godly words; as David sings, "May my meditation be pleasing to him.
Athanasius of Alexandria· FESTAL LETTERS 19:4Patristic
- Psalms 119:11
I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
- Psalms 119:16
I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
- Psalms 119:23
Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
Commentary on Psalms 119:231 voice
Princes also did sit and speak against me,.... The princes in the court of Saul, who suggested to him that David sought his hurt; the princes of his own court, Absalom, his own son, a prince of the blood, and Ahithophel, a counsellor of state: or the princes of the Gentiles, as Jarchi; so the princes of the Philistines spake against him in a very disdainful manner, "make this fellow return to his place again", 1Sa 29:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed