Psalms 105:8 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 105:8

He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

KJV

Parallel translations

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ASV

He hath remembered his covenant for ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

WEB

He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations—

YLT

He hath remembered to the age His covenant, The word He commanded to a thousand generations,

DBT

He is ever mindful of his covenant, — the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, —

About this book

Old Testament

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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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Cross-references

28 verses on the floor

Deuteronomy 7:9
Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
2 Kings 13:23
And the Lord was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
Luke 1:72–74
To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
Psalms 111:5
He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.
Psalms 106:45
And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices2

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

God will not forget it and therefore we must not. The promise is here called a covenant, because there was something required on man's part as the condition of the promise. The persons with whom this covenant was made--with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, grandfather, father, and son, all eminent believers, Heb. xi.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The covenant was often ratified. word--answering to "covenant" [Ps 105:9] in the parallel clause, namely, the word of promise, which, according to Ps 105:10, He set forth for an inviolable law. commanded--or, "ordained" (Ps 68:28). to a thousand generations--perpetually.

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

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Words3

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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.

H1755167× in canon H2142230× in canon H1285284× in canon

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

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 105:8DEU 7:9 DAN 9:4
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 105:8DEU 7:9 HEB 10:23
PSA 105:8DEU 7:9 2TI 2:13
PSA 105:8DEU 7:9 2TH 3:3
PSA 105:8DEU 7:9 1CO 1:9
PSA 105:8PSA 106:45 2KI 13:23
PSA 105:8PSA 106:45 EXO 32:14
PSA 105:8PSA 106:45 JDG 2:18

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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