Psalms 29:6 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 29:6

He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.

BSB

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ASV

He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.

KJV

He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

He maketh them also to skip like a calf,.... That is, the cedars, the branches being broken off, or they torn up by the roots, and tossed about by the wind; which motion is compared to that of a calf that leaps and skips about; Lebanon and Sirion, like a young unicorn; that is, these mountains move and skip about through the force of thunder, and the violence of an earthquake attending it; so historians report that mountains have moved from place to place, and they have met and dashed against one another (d).

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Them - The cedars; which being broken by the thunder, the parts of them are suddenly and violently hurled hither and thither. Sirion - An high mountain beyond Jordan joining to Lebanon. Lebanon and Sirion are said to skip or leap, both here, and chap. cxiv, 4, by a poetical hyperbole.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 2 (1870)

He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn. Not only the trees, but the mountains themselves move as though they frisked and leaped like young bulls or antelopes. As our own poets would mention hills and valleys known to them, so the Psalmist hears the crash and roar among the ranges of Libanus, and depicts the tumult in graphic terms.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּרְקִידֵ֥ם	vai.yar.ki.Dem	and he made skip them	H7540 →
כְּמוֹ־	ke.mov-	like	H3644 →
עֵ֑גֶל	'E.gel	a calf	H5695 →
לְבָנ֥וֹן	le.va.Non	Lebanon	H3844 →
וְ֝שִׂרְיֹ֗ן	ve.sir.Yon	and Sirion	H8303 →
כְּמ֣וֹ	ke.Mo	like	H3644 →
בֶן־	ven-	a young one of	H1121 →
רְאֵמִֽים׃	re.'e.Mim	wild oxen	H7214 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 20:11
Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.
leads to
- Revelation 21:1
  Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
- 2 Peter 3:7
  And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- Matthew 25:31
  When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His glorious throne.
- Daniel 2:35
  Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were shattered and became like chaff on the threshing floor in summer. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found.…
- 2 Peter 3:10–12
  But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid…
Through
Numbers 23:22
God brought them out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox.
leads to
- Numbers 24:8
  God brought him out of Egypt with strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their bones, to pierce them with arrows.
- Deuteronomy 33:17
  His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the…
Through
Deuteronomy 3:9
which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—
leads to
- 1 Chronicles 5:23
  Now the people of the half-tribe of Manasseh were numerous. They settled in the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon (that is, Senir, also known as Mount Hermon).

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The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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