Psalms 24:2 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 24:2

For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

KJV

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ASV

For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods.

WEB

For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.

YLT

For He on the seas hath founded it, And on the floods He doth establish it.

DBT

For it was he that founded it upon seas, and established it upon floods.

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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2 Peter 3:5
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
Jeremiah 5:22
Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Psalms 104:5
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Psalms 136:6
To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.

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The kingdom of his grace, by which he rules in his church. Concerning the subjects of that kingdom; their character (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

5 He shall receive the blessing from the L ORD , and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. From this world, and the fulness thereof, the psalmist's meditations rise, of a sudden to the great things of another world, the foundation of which is not on the seas, nor on the floods.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Poetically represents the facts of Ge 1:9. The form of a question gives vivacity. Hands, tongue, and heart are organs of action, speech, and feeling, which compose character. hill of the Lord--(compare Ps 2:6, &c.).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Seas - The whole collection of waters, as well as the sea and the rivers running into it, as that great abyss of waters which is contained in the bowels of the earth.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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