Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.
The verse belongs to the psalm sung when David brought the ark of God into Jerusalem with gladness, associating God's presence with glory, honor, strength, and gladness. It is Hebrew poetry, not prose, and its wording carries the fervor of poetic diction and figurative expression and is not to be construed literally as a plain prose statement. The passage containing it, 1 Chronicles 16:23-33, reproduces the whole of Psalm 96 with some slight, revised variations. The chapter also parallels Psalm 105, with 1 Chronicles 16:8-22 reproducing the first fifteen verses of Psalm 105.
The verse has been cited without explanation of its specific meaning. Its chapter discusses God's commandments in connection with the promise extending to a thousand generations. It declares that glory and honour are in God's presence and strength and gladness are in His place. In its setting, the Lord is praised above idols because He made the heavens, and all peoples are called to declare His glory and worship Him.
The verse is part of a call to proclaim God's message of salvation to all the world. That worldwide proclamation was to be made both in His works and by His Word. That past worldwide call proves that God's grace had been made world-wide in the past. It shows that Israel, the pilgrim people who received God's truth and law, were given it not for themselves alone but were called out to be His priests to the whole world and to declare His glory among the nations and Gentiles so that they might be converted.
That priesthood involved both living the law so other nations would be won and proclaiming His glory to bring them to Him, with one law then for both Israel and the peoples of the nations who give themselves to God. The giving of the law in the solitudes of the world to such a people attested the importance of the law. The verse is cited as a reference to the close of probation and the judgment that follows the period of trial.
The verse belongs to the psalm sung when David brought the ark of God into Jerusalem with gladness, associating God's presence with glory, honor, strength, and gladness. It is Hebrew poetry, not prose, and its wording carries the fervor of poetic diction and figurative expression and is not to be construed literally as a plain prose statement. The passage containing it, 1 Chronicles 16:23-33, reproduces the whole of Psalm 96 with some slight, revised variations. The chapter also parallels Psalm 105, with 1 Chronicles 16:8-22 reproducing the first fifteen verses of Psalm 105.
The verse has been cited without explanation of its specific meaning. Its chapter discusses God's commandments in connection with the promise extending to a thousand generations. It declares that glory and honour are in God's presence and strength and gladness are in His place. In its setting, the Lord is praised above idols because He made the heavens, and all peoples are called to declare His glory and worship Him.
The verse is part of a call to proclaim God's message of salvation to all the world. That worldwide proclamation was to be made both in His works and by His Word. That past worldwide call proves that God's grace had been made world-wide in the past. It shows that Israel, the pilgrim people who received God's truth and law, were given it not for themselves alone but were called out to be His priests to the whole world and to declare His glory among the nations and Gentiles so that they might be converted.
That priesthood involved both living the law so other nations would be won and proclaiming His glory to bring them to Him, with one law then for both Israel and the peoples of the nations who give themselves to God. The giving of the law in the solitudes of the world to such a people attested the importance of the law. The verse is cited as a reference to the close of probation and the judgment that follows the period of trial.