For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.
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For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.
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For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.
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For great is the LORD, and highly to be praised; He also is to be feared above all gods.
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Passages linked to 1 Chronicles 16:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 66:3-5 Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you. All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you; they will sing to your name.” Come, and see God’s deeds— awesome work on behalf of the children of men.
- Psalms 89:7 a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?
- Jeremiah 10:6-10 There is no one like you, Yahweh. You are great, and your name is great in might. Who shouldn’t fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you. But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood. There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the engraver and of the hands of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple. They are all the work of skillful men. But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.
- Revelation 15:3-4 They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations. Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”
- Exodus 15:11 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Psalms 76:7 You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
- Psalms 144:3-6 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him? Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away. Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke. Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
- Isaiah 40:12-17 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor? Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing. Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering. All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
- Jeremiah 5:22 Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 25. to be feared above all gods] i.e. to…
25. to be feared above all gods] i.e. to be feared as being above all “that are called gods,” these being “things of nought” (1Ch_16:26, R.V. mg.). The real existence of false gods is not assumed.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain He also is to be feared above all gods.
1Ch_16:25
He also is to be feared above all gods.
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The theology of The Old Testament
in the perusal of the Old Testament few sentiments more frequently meet our eye than comparisons between the great object of worship among the Jews and those imaginary deities to which the Gentiles in general paid adoration. This contrast pervades alike their doctrines of religion, their precepts of morality, and their hymns of thanks and praise. To the mind of a legislator, a judge, or a prophet of Israel, comparisons of this kind naturally and unavoidably arose, when he witnessed the ignorance, the polytheism, and the superstitions of the nations around him. As the religious sentiments of the Jews and Gentiles correspond with the objects of their faith and worship respectively, a concise comparison between the theology of the Bible and that of the heathen philosophers cannot fail to be interesting and instructive.
I. The Greeks and Romans undoubtedly excelled the Jews, if not in the natural endowments of the mind, at least in every artificial improvement. But in their doctrines respecting the Creator, and His providence and His laws, they can come in no competition with the nation whom they fancied they had reason to despise.
II. The writers of Greece and Rome greatly exceeded those of Judea in the variety of their publications in the variety of the subjects to which their genius appears to have been adapted. In the authors of the Old Testament, when we again advert to the peculiar subject of their excellence, we find such poetical addresses of reverence or supplication to the supreme Being, and such descriptions of His proceedings and His providence, as the whole circle of human literature cannot elsewhere supply.
III. Amongst the Greeks and Romans the most rational opinions entertained on these difficult and important subjects were confined to a small number of the superior classes of society. From the unlearned populace those opinions were, for reasons of pride or policy, systematically and successfully concealed. Amongst the Jews, on the other hand, we find no traces of one creed for the learned and another for the ignorant.
IV. The philosophers of Greece and Rome, if they did not themselves believe, permitted or taught the people in general to believe that a different deity presided over every separate nation and every separate city; over almost every different profession among men, and almost every different object of nature; that these various deities often disagreed in their interests and opinions, and opposed each other in their wishes and pursuits. The Jews believed and taught that there was One mighty Being, the Maker and Ruler of the world; to whose authority every other sentient being owed implicit obedience.
V. The public worship of the Gentiles was addressed on various occasions to as various objects that were no Gods; and their rites and ceremonies were contaminated always by superstition, and not seldom by impiety. The worship of the Jew was addressed to one God, under one uniform character, as the only proper object of adoration; whose perfections no image could fitly represent, and to whom pure and spiritual worship was the most acceptable. To the one the Sabbath was a pious rest from his labours. With the other, religious festivals were seasons of intemperance, often immoral, and always licentious. (W. Barrow, LL. D.)
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(See Scofield "Psa 19:9").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Yahweh is great and is to be praised greatly
Yahweh is great and is to be praised greatly
This can be translated in active form. AT: "Yahweh is great. Praise him greatly" or "Yahweh is great, and people should praise him greatly" (See: Active or Passive)
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he is to be feared above all other gods
This can be translated in active form. AT: "fear him above all other gods" (See: Active or Passive)
Splendor and majesty are in his presence
The author speaks as if splendor and majesty are people who can stand before a king. (See: Personification)
in his presence
"all around him" or "where he is"
Strength and joy are in his place
The author speaks as if strength and joy are people who can be in Yahweh's sanctuary. (See: Personification)
in his place
"in his temple" or "in his sanctuary"
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praise
fear
false god
false god
heaven
splendor
majesty
strength
joy
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