Psalms 136:20 King James Version with Strong's Concordance (STRONG)

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²⁰ And Og ^H5747 the king ^H4428 of Bashan: ^H1316 for his mercy ^H2617 endureth for ever: ^H5769

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Numbers 21:33 STRONG

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And they turned ^H6437 and went up ^H5927 by the way ^H1870 of Bashan: ^H1316 and Og ^H5747 the king ^H4428 of Bashan ^H1316 went out ^H3318 against ^H7125 them, he, and all his people, ^H5971 to the battle ^H4421 at Edrei. ^H154

Deuteronomy 3:1-29 STRONG

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Then we turned, ^H6437 and went up ^H5927 the way ^H1870 to Bashan: ^H1316 and Og ^H5747 the king ^H4428 of Bashan ^H1316 came out ^H3318 against ^H7125 us, he and all his people, ^H5971 to battle ^H4421 at Edrei. ^H154 And the LORD ^H3068 said ^H559 unto me, Fear ^H3372 him not: for I will deliver ^H5414 him, and all his people, ^H5971 and his land, ^H776 into thy hand; ^H3027 and thou shalt do ^H6213 unto him as thou didst ^H6213 unto Sihon ^H5511 king ^H4428 of the Amorites, ^H567 which dwelt ^H3427 at Heshbon. ^H2809 So the LORD ^H3068 our God ^H430 delivered ^H5414 into our hands ^H3027 Og ^H5747 also, the king ^H4428 of Bashan, ^H1316 and all his people: ^H5971 and we smote ^H5221 him until none was left ^H7604 to him remaining. ^H8300 And we took ^H3920 all his cities ^H5892 at that time, ^H6256 there was not a city ^H7151 which we took ^H3947 not from them, threescore ^H8346 cities, ^H5892 all the region ^H2256 of Argob, ^H709 the kingdom ^H4467 of Og ^H5747 in Bashan. ^H1316 All these cities ^H5892 were fenced ^H1219 with high ^H1364 walls, ^H2346 gates, ^H1817 and bars; ^H1280 beside unwalled ^H6521 towns ^H5892 a great ^H3966 many. ^H7235 And we utterly destroyed ^H2763 them, as we did ^H6213 unto Sihon ^H5511 king ^H4428 of Heshbon, ^H2809 utterly destroying ^H2763 the men, ^H4962 women, ^H802 and children, ^H2945 of every city. ^H5892 But all the cattle, ^H929 and the spoil ^H7998 of the cities, ^H5892 we took for a prey ^H962 to ourselves. And we took ^H3947 at that time ^H6256 out ^H3947 of the hand ^H3027 of the two ^H8147 kings ^H4428 of the Amorites ^H567 the land ^H776 that was on this side ^H5676 Jordan, ^H3383 from the river ^H5158 of Arnon ^H769 unto mount ^H2022 Hermon; ^H2768 (Which Hermon ^H2768 the Sidonians ^H6722 call ^H7121 Sirion; ^H8303 and the Amorites ^H567 call ^H7121 it Shenir;) ^H8149 All the cities ^H5892 of the plain, ^H4334 and all Gilead, ^H1568 and all Bashan, ^H1316 unto Salchah ^H5548 and Edrei, ^H154 cities ^H5892 of the kingdom ^H4467 of Og ^H5747 in Bashan. ^H1316 For only Og ^H5747 king ^H4428 of Bashan ^H1316 remained ^H7604 of the remnant ^H3499 of giants; ^H7497 behold, his bedstead ^H6210 was a bedstead ^H6210 of iron; ^H1270 is it not ^H3808 in Rabbath ^H7237 of the children ^H1121 of Ammon? ^H5983 nine ^H8672 cubits ^H520 was the length ^H753 thereof, and four ^H702 cubits ^H520 the breadth ^H7341 of it, after the cubit ^H520 of a man. ^H376 And this land, ^H776 which we possessed ^H3423 at that time, ^H6256 from Aroer, ^H6177 which is by the river ^H5158 Arnon, ^H769 and half ^H2677 mount ^H2022 Gilead, ^H1568 and the cities ^H5892 thereof, gave ^H5414 I unto the Reubenites ^H7206 and to the Gadites. ^H1425 And the rest ^H3499 of Gilead, ^H1568 and all Bashan, ^H1316 being the kingdom ^H4467 of Og, ^H5747 gave ^H5414 I unto the half ^H2677 tribe ^H7626 of Manasseh; ^H4519 all the region ^H2256 of Argob, ^H709 with all Bashan, ^H1316 which ^H1931 was called ^H7121 the land ^H776 of giants. ^H7497 Jair ^H2971 the son ^H1121 of Manasseh ^H4519 took ^H3947 all the country ^H2256 of Argob ^H709 unto the coasts ^H1366 of Geshuri ^H1651 and Maachathi; ^H4602 and called ^H7121 them after his own name, ^H8034 Bashanhavothjair, ^H1316 ^H2334 unto this day. ^H3117 And I gave ^H5414 Gilead ^H1568 unto Machir. ^H4353 And unto the Reubenites ^H7206 and unto the Gadites ^H1425 I gave ^H5414 from Gilead ^H1568 even unto the river ^H5158 Arnon ^H769 half ^H8432 the valley, ^H5158 and the border ^H1366 even unto the river ^H5158 Jabbok, ^H2999 which is the border ^H1366 of the children ^H1121 of Ammon; ^H5983 The plain ^H6160 also, and Jordan, ^H3383 and the coast ^H1366 thereof, from Chinnereth ^H3672 even unto the sea ^H3220 of the plain, ^H6160 even the salt ^H4417 sea, ^H3220 under Ashdothpisgah ^H798 ^H794 eastward. ^H4217 And I commanded ^H6680 you at that time, ^H6256 saying, ^H559 The LORD ^H3068 your God ^H430 hath given ^H5414 you this land ^H776 to possess ^H3423 it: ye shall pass over ^H5674 armed ^H2502 before ^H6440 your brethren ^H251 the children ^H1121 of Israel, ^H3478 all that are meet ^H1121 for the war. ^H2428 But your wives, ^H802 and your little ones, ^H2945 and your cattle, ^H4735 (for I know ^H3045 that ye have much ^H7227 cattle,) ^H4735 shall abide ^H3427 in your cities ^H5892 which I have given ^H5414 you; Until the LORD ^H3068 have given rest ^H5117 unto your brethren, ^H251 as well as unto you, and until they also possess ^H3423 the land ^H776 which the LORD ^H3068 your God ^H430 hath given ^H5414 them beyond ^H5676 Jordan: ^H3383 and then shall ye return ^H7725 every man ^H376 unto his possession, ^H3425 which I have given ^H5414 you. And I commanded ^H6680 Joshua ^H3091 at that time, ^H6256 saying, ^H559 Thine eyes ^H5869 have seen ^H7200 all that the LORD ^H3068 your God ^H430 hath done ^H6213 unto these two ^H8147 kings: ^H4428 so shall the LORD ^H3068 do ^H6213 unto all the kingdoms ^H4467 whither thou passest. ^H5674 Ye shall not fear ^H3372 them: for the LORD ^H3068 your God ^H430 he shall fight ^H3898 for you. And I besought ^H2603 the LORD ^H3068 at that time, ^H6256 saying, ^H559 O Lord ^H136 GOD, ^H3069 thou hast begun ^H2490 to shew ^H7200 thy servant ^H5650 thy greatness, ^H1433 and thy mighty ^H2389 hand: ^H3027 for what God ^H410 is there in heaven ^H8064 or in earth, ^H776 that can do ^H6213 according to thy works, ^H4639 and according to thy might? ^H1369 I pray thee, let me go over, ^H5674 and see ^H7200 the good ^H2896 land ^H776 that is beyond ^H5676 Jordan, ^H3383 that goodly ^H2896 mountain, ^H2022 and Lebanon. ^H3844 But the LORD ^H3068 was wroth ^H5674 with me for your sakes, and would not hear ^H8085 me: and the LORD ^H3068 said ^H559 unto me, Let it suffice ^H7227 thee; speak ^H1696 no more ^H3254 unto me of this matter. ^H1697 Get thee up ^H5927 into the top ^H7218 of Pisgah, ^H6449 and lift up ^H5375 thine eyes ^H5869 westward, ^H3220 and northward, ^H6828 and southward, ^H8486 and eastward, ^H4217 and behold ^H7200 it with thine eyes: ^H5869 for thou shalt not go over ^H5674 this Jordan. ^H3383 But charge ^H6680 Joshua, ^H3091 and encourage ^H2388 him, and strengthen ^H553 him: for he shall go over ^H5674 before ^H6440 this people, ^H5971 and he shall cause them to inherit ^H5157 the land ^H776 which thou shalt see. ^H7200 So we abode ^H3427 in the valley ^H1516 over against ^H4136 Bethpeor. ^H1047

Commentary on Psalms 136 Matthew Henry Commentary

John Gill Keil & Delitzsch Robert Jamieson: Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalm 136

The scope of this psalm is the same with that of the foregoing psalm, but there is something very singular in the composition of it; for the latter half of each verse is the same, repeated throughout the psalm, "for his mercy endureth for ever,' and yet no vain repetition. It is allowed that such burdens, or "keepings,' as we call them, add very much to the beauty of a song, and help to make it moving and affecting; nor can any verse contain more weighty matter, or more worthy to be thus repeated, than this, that God's mercy endureth for ever; and the repetition of it here twenty-six times intimates,

1. That God's mercies to his people are thus repeated and drawn, as it were, with a continuando from the beginning to the end, with a progress and advance in infinitum.
2. That in every particular favour we ought to take notice of the mercy of God, and to take favour we ought to take notice of the mercy of God, and to take notice of it as enduring still, the same now that it has been, and enduring for ever, the same always that it is.
3. That the everlasting continuance of the mercy of God is very much his honour and that which he glories in, and very much the saints' comfort and that which they glory in. It is that which therefore our hearts should be full of and greatly affected with, so that the most frequent mention of it, instead of cloying us, should raise us the more, because it will be the subject of our praise to all eternity. This most excellent sentence, that God's mercy endureth for ever, is magnified above all the truths concerning God, not only by the repetition of it here, but by the signal tokens of divine acceptance with which God owned the singing of it, both in Solomon's time (2 Chr. 5:13, when they sang these words, "for his mercy endureth for ever,' the house was filled with a cloud) and in Jehoshaphat's time (when they sang these words, God gave them victory, 2 Chr. 20:21, 22), which should make us love to sing, "His mercies sure do still endure, eternally.' We must praise God,
- I. As great and good in himself (v. 1-3).
- II. As the Creator of the world (v. 5-9).
- III. As Israel's God and Saviour (v. 10-22).
- IV. As our Redeemer (v. 23, 24).
- V. As the great benefactor of the whole creation, and God over all, blessed for evermore (v. 25, 26).

Psa 136:1-9

The duty we are here again and again called to is to give thanks, to offer the sacrifice of praise continually, not the fruits of our ground or cattle, but the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name, Heb. 13:15. We are never so earnestly called upon to pray and repent as to give thanks; for it is the will of God that we should abound most in the most pleasant exercises of religion, in that which is the work of heaven. Now here observe,

1. Whom we must give thanks to-to him that we receive all good from, to the Lord, Jehovah, Israel's God (v. 1), the God of gods, the God whom angels adore, from whom magistrates derive their power, and by whom all pretended deities are and shall be conquered (v. 2), to the Lord of lords, the Sovereign of all sovereigns, the stay and supporter of all supports; v. 3. In all our adorations we must have an eye to God's excellency as transcendent, and to his power and dominion as incontestably and uncontrollably supreme.
2. What we must give thanks for, not as the Pharisee that made all his thanksgivings terminate in his own praise (God, I thank thee, that I am so and so), but directing them all to God's glory.
- (1.) We must give thanks to God for his goodness and mercy (v. 1): Give thanks to the Lord, not only because he does good, but because he is good (all the streams must be traced up to the fountain), not only because he is merciful to us, but because his mercy endures for ever, and will be drawn out to those that shall come after us. We must give thanks to God, not only for that mercy which is now handed out to us here on earth, but for that which shall endure for ever in the glories and joys of heaven.
- (2.) We must give God thanks for the instances of his power and wisdom. In general (v. 4), he along does great wonders. The contrivance is wonderful, the design being laid by infinite wisdom; the performance is wonderful, being put in execution by infinite power. He alone does marvellous things; none besides can do such things, and he does them without the assistance or advice of any other. More particularly,
  - [1.] He made the heavens, and stretched them out, and in them we not only see his wisdom and power, but we taste his mercy in their benign influences; as long as the heavens endure the mercy of God endures in them, v. 5.
  - [2.] He raised the earth out of the waters when he caused the dry land to appear, that it might be fit to be a habitation for man, and therein also his mercy to man still endures (v. 6); for the earth hath he given to the children of men, and all its products.
  - [3.] Having made both heaven and earth, he settled a correspondence between them, notwithstanding their distance, by making the sun, moon, and stars, which he placed in the firmament of heaven, to shed their light and influences upon this earth, v. 7-9. These are called the great lights because they appear so to us, for otherwise astronomers could tell us that the moon is less than many of the stars, but, being nearer to the earth, it seems much greater. They are said to rule, not only because they govern the seasons of the year, but because they are useful to the world, and benefactors are the best rulers, Lu. 22:25. But the empire is divided, one rules by day, the other by night (at least, the stars), and yet all are subject to God's direction and disposal. Those rulers, therefore, which the Gentiles idolized, are the world's servants and God's subjects. Sun, stand thou still, and thou moon.

Psa 136:10-22

The great things God for Israel, when he first formed them into a people, and set up his kingdom among them, are here mentioned, as often elsewhere in the psalms, as instances both of the power of God and of the particular kindness he had for Israel. See Ps. 135:8, etc.

1. He brought them out of Egypt, v. 10-12. That was a mercy which endured long to them, and our redemption by Christ, which was typified by that, does indeed endure for ever, for it is an eternal redemption. Of all the plagues of Egypt, none is mentioned but the death of the first-born, because that was the conquering plague; by that God, who in all the plagues distinguished the Israelites from the Egyptians, brought them at last from among them, not by a wile, but with a strong hand and an arm stretched out to reach far and do great things. These miracles of mercy, as they proved Moses's commission to give law to Israel, so they laid Israel under lasting obligations to obey that law, Ex. 20:2.
2. He forced them a way through the Red Sea, which obstructed them at their first setting out. By the power he has to control the common course of nature he divided the sea into two parts, between which he opened a path, and made Israel to pass between the parts, now that they were to enter into covenant with him; see Jer. 34:18. He not only divided the sea, but gave his people courage to go through it when it was divided, which was an instance of God's power over men's hearts, as the former of his power over the waters. And, to make it a miracle of justice as well as mercy, the same Red Sea that was a lane to the Israelites was a grave to their pursuers. There he shook off Pharaoh and his host.
3. He conducted them through a vast howling wilderness (v. 16); there he led them and fed them. Their camp was victualled and fortified by a constant series of miracles for forty years; though they loitered and wandered there, they were not lost. And in this the mercy of God, and the constancy of that mercy, were the more observable because they often provoked him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert.
4. He destroyed kings before them, to make room for them (v. 17, 18), not deposed and banished them, but smote and slew them, in which appeared his wrath against them, but his mercy, his never-failing mercy, to Israel. And that which magnified it was that they were great kings and famous kings, yet God subdued them as easily as if they had been the least, and weakest, and meanest, of the children of men. They were wicked kings, and then their grandeur and lustre would not secure them from the justice of God. The more great and famous they were the more did God's mercy to Israel appear in giving such kings for them. Sihon and Og are particularly mentioned, because they were the first two that were conquered on the other side Jordan, v. 19, 20. It is good to enter into the detail of God's favours and not to view them in the gross, and in each instance to observe, and own, that God's mercy endureth for ever.
5. He put them in possession of a good land, v. 21, 22. He whose the earth is, and the fulness thereof, the world and those that dwell therein, took land from one people and gave it to another, as pleased him. The iniquity of the Amorites was now full, and therefore it was taken from them. Israel was his servant, and, though they had been provoking in the wilderness, yet he intended to have some service out of them, for to them pertained the service of God. As he said to the Egyptians, Let my people go, so to the Canaanites, Let my people in, that they may serve me. In this God's mercy to them endureth for ever, because it was a figure of the heavenly Canaan, the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Psa 136:23-26

God's everlasting mercy is here celebrated,

1. In the redemption of his church, v. 23, 24. In the many redemptions wrought for the Jewish church out of the hands of their oppressors (when, in the years of their servitude, their estate was very low, God remembered them, and raised them up saviours, the judges, and David, at length, by whom God gave them rest from all their enemies), but especially in the great redemption of the universal church, of which these were types, we have a great deal of reason to say, "He remembered us, the children of men, in our low estate, in our lost estate, for his mercy endureth for ever; he sent his Son to redeem us from sin, and death, and hell, and all our spiritual enemies, for his mercy endureth for ever; he was sent to redeem us, and not the angels that sinned, for his mercy endureth for ever.'
2. In the provision he makes for all the creatures (v. 25): He gives food to all flesh. It is an instance of the mercy of God's providence that wherever he has given life he gives food agreeable and sufficient; and he is a good housekeeper that provides for so large a family.
3. In all his glories, and all his gifts (v. 26): Give thanks to the God of heaven. This denotes him to be a glorious God, and the glory of his mercy is to be taken notice of in our praises. The riches of his glory are displayed in the vessels of his mercy, Rom. 9:23. It also denotes him to be the great benefactor, for every good and perfect gift is from above, from the Father of lights, the God of heaven; and we should trace every stream to the fountain. This and that particular mercy may perhaps endure but a while, but the mercy that is in God endures for ever; it is an inexhaustible fountain.

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