Psalms 104:4 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 104:4

Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:

KJV

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ASV

Who maketh winds his messengers; Flames of fire his ministers;

WEB

He makes the winds His messengers, flames of fire His servants.

YLT

Making His messengers--the winds, His ministers--the flaming fire.

DBT

Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flame of fire.

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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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Hebrews 1:7
And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
2 Kings 2:11
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
2 Kings 6:17
And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Hebrews 1:14
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
Genesis 3:24
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

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7 ) to prove the pre-eminence of Christ above the angels. The angels are here said to be his angels and his ministers, for they are under his dominion and at his disposal; they are winds, and a flame of fire, that is, they appeared in wind and fire (so some), or they are as swift as winds, and pure as flames; or he makes them spirits, so the apostle quotes it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

This is quoted by Paul (Heb 1:7) to denote the subordinate position of angels; that is, they are only messengers as other and material agencies. spirits--literally, "winds." flaming fire-- (Ps 105:32) being here so called.

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

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The quotation web

Quoted in HEB 1:7
'Who maketh his angels spirits'

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 104:4HEB 1:14 PSA 34:7
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 104:42KI 6:17 PSA 68:17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 104:42KI 6:17 HEB 1:14
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
PSA 104:4HEB 1:14 PSA 103:20-21
PSA 104:4HEB 1:14 PSA 91:11-12
PSA 104:4HEB 1:7 2KI 6:17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 104:4HEB 1:14 MAT 18:10
PSA 104:4HEB 1:14 DAN 6:22

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