Psalms 95:3
For the LORD is a great God, a great King above all gods.
BSB
ASV
For Jehovah is a great God, And a great King above all gods.
KJV
For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
We know that there has always been a host of gods in the world, as Paul says, "There are many on the earth who are called gods," (1 Corinthians 8:5.) We are to notice the opposition stated between the God of Israel and all others which man has formed in the exercise of an unlicensed imagination.
(1.) He has great power: He is a great King above all gods, above all deputed deities, all magistrates, to whom he said, You are gods (he manages them all, and serves his own purposes by them, and to him they are all accountable), above all counterfeit deities, all pretenders, all usurpers; he can do that which none of them can do; he can, and will, famish and vanquish them all.
For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. No doubt the surrounding nations imagined Jehovah to be a merely local deity, the god of a small nation, and therefore one of the inferior deities; the psalmist utterly repudiates such an idea. Idolaters tolerated gods many and lords many, giving to each a certain measure of respect; the monotheism of the Jews was not content with this concession, it rightly claimed for Jehovah the chief place, and the supreme power.
The walk8
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.
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Psalms 145:3Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.
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Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.
O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching…
He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.
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Psalms 96:4For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.
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Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.
Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”
There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.