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
He withdrew himself and cleansed himself from the vices of this world, elevating his soul like Isaac in the field, or (as others have it) walking freely.
Ambrose of Milan· On Isaac and the Soul, 397Patristic
(Verses 62 and 63.) And he himself dwelt in the land of the south: and Isaac went forth to meditate in the field towards evening. The land of the south signifies Gerar, to which he had once been led by his father to be sacrificed. But when it says, And he went forth to meditate in the field, which in Greek is called ἀδολεσχῆσαι, in Hebrew it is read: And Isaac went forth to speak in the field, the evening already declining.
Jerome· Hebrew Questions on Genesis, 420Patristic
- 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
Next, on what subjects and to what extent may we philosophize? On matters within our reach, and to such an extent as the mental power and grasp of our audience may extend. No further, lest, as excessively loud sounds injure the hearing, or excess of food the body, or, if you will, as excessive burdens beyond the strength injure those who bear them, or excessive rains the earth; so these too, being pressed down and overweighted by the stiffness, if I may use the expression, of the arguments should suffer loss even in respect of the strength they originally possessed.
Gregory of Nazianzus· THEOLOGICAL ORATIONS 1 (27).3-4, 390Patristic
- 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 1:21 voice
The splendid brilliance of God's grace never suffers an eclipse. No, it is always at hand to enlighten the inner thoughts of those who really want it. Great good comes to people who, enlightened by the grace of God, make it their habit to apply the truths of holy Scripture to their lives. They receive just such a blessing as the psalmist describes.… Those blessings come because the person who accepts God's grace is not illumined by mere physical light from the sun, the moon or even the whole host of stars.
Athanasius of Alexandria· FESTAL LETTERS 5:1, 373Patristic
- Psalms 4:4
Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
Commentary on Psalms 4:41 voice
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 14, 397Patristic
- 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 19:141 voice
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 19, 420Patristic
- Psalms 39:3
My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
Commentary on Psalms 39:31 voice
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 9:9.7, 253Patristic
- Psalms 49:3
My mouth will impart wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will bring understanding.
Commentary on Psalms 49:31 voice
If the meditation is wisdom, what will the message be? When the meditation of the heart is wisdom, wicked thoughts will not come within it, nor is a place given to the devil or those things that defile people.
Origen of Alexandria· SELECTIONS FROM THE PSALMS 49:4-5, 253Patristic
- Psalms 63:5
My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.
Commentary on Psalms 63:51 voice
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 V, 397Patristic
- Psalms 63:6
When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
Commentary on Psalms 63:61 voice
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,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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 76, 420Patristic
- 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 19:4, 373Patristic
- Psalms 119:11
I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
Commentary on Psalms 119:111 voice
Thy word have I hid in mine heart,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 119:15
I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.
Commentary on Psalms 119:151 voice
I will meditate in thy precepts,.... In his own mind; revolve them in his thoughts; consider well the nature, excellency, usefulness, and importance of them, and the obligations he lay under to observe them.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 119:16
I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
Commentary on Psalms 119:161 voice
I will delight myself in thy statutes,.... In looking over them; in meditating on them; in obeying them, and walking according to them; as every good man does delight in the law of the Lord, after the inward man, Rom 7:22; see Psa 119:24; I will not forget thy word: he took all proper methods to fix it in his memory; he laid it up in his mind; he meditated upon it in his heart, and he talked of it with his lips, Psa 119:11.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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