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Psalm 100
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2 Chronicles 30
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1.
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Make a joyful noise unto the Lord
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26.
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There was great joy in Jerusalem
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1.
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All the earth (mg.) (eretz = Land)
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5.
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All Israel, from Beersheba unto Dan
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6.
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Throughout all Israel and Judah
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2.
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Serve the Lord with gladness
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23.
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With gladness
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3.
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He hath made us, and (mg.) we are his... the sheep of his
pasture
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Passover, and the slaying of the lambs celebrating
Passover
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4.
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Enter into his gates
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8.
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Enter into his sanctuary
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4.
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Be thankful (yadah)
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22.
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To make confession (yadah: same root)
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4.
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Into his courts with praise
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21.
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Singing with loud instruments unto the Lord
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5.
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His mercy... his truth (i.e., the Promises)
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6.
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The Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel
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5.
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To all generations
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7.
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The Lord God of their fathers
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1.
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Make a joyful noise... all ye lands. As in Psa. 98:4,
the Hebrew has a plural verb with a singular noun — i.e., all the earth
(eretz). To emphasize individual participation of everyone? So
also in Psa. 66:1, where v. 6 has pointed links with the Passover and with
95:5.
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Of course, a Messianic fulfillment requires the plural
lands, now all united in one.
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Despite some well-intentioned efforts to encourage, or excuse,
universal participation in the service of song, the “joyful noise”
is not the special contribution of the tone-deaf, still less of the shallow and
jovial. “Joyful noise” is here, as in 95:1 and 98:6, the
intelligent, exuberant shout of acclamation and homage to a king — or
the King! This verse claims all the world for God, and any joy at its
singing should surely be tempered with reason and godly fear at such an awesome
prospect.
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2.
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Serve the Lord. It must never be forgotten that a
service is that which is offered in humble submission. It is not just a
“going through the motions”. So even today, when one comes in
“from the field”, it is time to “gird oneself [that is, find
those hidden reserves of strength one no longer believes to exist] and serve
Him” (Luke 17:7,8).
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In Exod. 12:25,26 and 13:5 the same word is used about the
Passover.
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Come before his presence (panim = faces) with
singing. The presence, or “faces”, of God suggests, as in Psa.
99:1, the Cherubim and the mercy-seat of the Most Holy place.
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3.
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Know ye is s.w. 46:10, another Hezekiah psalm:
“Be still, and know that I am God.”
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He hath made us. It was at the first Passover that God
“made” Israel into His people.
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And not we ourselves. This is an obvious redundancy,
made un-necessary by the preceding “He hath made us”. The rabbinic
scribes have recognized that here is a confusion between two Hebrew words which
sound the same: lo’, “not”, and lo,
“his” or “to him”. Therefore this should be
read, as AV mg. (and most modern versions): “And we are His”.
(The same confusion has arisen in about 14 other passages, including Exod. 21:8;
Isa. 63:9; Ezra. 4:2; and 1 Sam. 2:3. In some of these, King James’ men
boldly made the correction without even a note in the margin.)
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If “we are his”, this gives all the more
weight to v. 2: “Serve him”. Here is the point of
Christ’s “Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are
Caesar’s, but render unto God the things that are God’s”
(Matt. 22:21). And of Paul’s “We are his workmanship,
created... unto good works” (Eph. 2:10). And in the New Testament,
compare also Matt. 4:10; James 1:18; and 1 Cor. 6:19.
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In the Old Testament, compare Isa. 43:1,21 and 44:5. Israel is
God’s “special possession” among all peoples (Exod. 19:5; Mal.
3:17).
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Made us. Psa. 119:73; 145:10; and Jer. 32:17,18 all
have the idea of two “creations” — natural and
spiritual.
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We are his people, and the sheep of his
pasture:
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And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am
your God, saith the Lord God” (Ezek. 34:31).
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4.
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Enter into his gates with thanksgiving — gates
which are closed to the unclean (Rev. 21:27).
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And into his courts with praise. And they are His!
This is to be remembered. Note the brusque reminder in Isa. 1:12:
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When ye come to appear before me, who hath required
this at your hand, to tread my courts?”
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