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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 26 Psalm of David. The occasion of this psalm seems to be the quarrel between Saul and David, the former listening to calumnies and reproaches cast upon the latter, and persecuting him in a violent manner. The argument of it is the same, in a great measure, with the seventh psalm, and is an appeal made to God, the Judge of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Judge me, O Lord,.... Meaning not that God would enter into judgment with him, in respect to the justification of his person in his sight, which he knew was not by his own righteousness and integrity, but by the righteousness of God; but his view is, to the justification of his cause before men; and particularly to the difference between Saul and...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
Holy David is in this psalm putting himself upon a solemn trial, not by God and his country, but by God and his own conscience, to both which he appeals touching his integrity (ver. 1, 2), for the proof of which he alleges, I. His constant regard to God and his grace, ver. 3. II. His rooted antipathy to sin and sinners, ver. 4, 5. III. His sincere...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Judge me, O LORD; As if he turned away from all other judges, bribed and false as they had proved themselves to be in his ease, and put himself on trial before God: “Judge me, O Lord; “- Psa_26:1.For I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide. He pleads two things: first, the outward life and...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. Judge me, O Jehovah. A solemn appeal to the just tribunal of the heart searching God, warranted by the circumstances of the writer, so far as regarded the particular offences with which he was wrongly charged. Worried and worn out by the injustice of men, the innocent spirit flies from its false accusers to the throne of Eternal Right. He...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Examine me, O Lord,.... His cause, his integrity, and trust in the Lord, as silver and gold are examined by the touchstone, the word of God, which is the standard of faith and practice; and prove me; or "tempt me" (r); as Abraham was tempted by the Lord; and his faith in him, and fear of him, and love to him, were proved to be true and genuine;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. This is a wonderful verse. One would hardly dare to pray it. Here are three kinds of trial. According to the etymology of the Hebrew the first is the trial by touch-“ Examine me “; the next is the trial by smell- “ Prove me “; and the next is the trial by fire-“ Assay my reins and my...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thy lovingkindness [is] before mine eyes,.... The special lovingkindness of God, shown in the choice of him in Christ, in the provision of a Saviour for him, and in the effectual calling of him; which lovingkindness is unmerited, free, and sovereign, is from everlasting and to everlasting; it is better than life, excellent beyond expression,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes:- Right straight before his eyes, he had God’s lovingkindness. Some people appear to have their miseries, their sorrows, their sins, before their eyes but happy is that believer who always has God’s lovingkindness before him!Come, my brother, forget for a little while the burden of your business cares;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have not sat with vain persons,.... Or "men of vanity" (t); who are full of it; who are addicted to the vanities of the world; who pursue the riches, honours, pleasures, and profits of it; which is no other than walking in a vain show: whose thoughts, words, and actions are vain; who are vainly puffed up in their fleshly mind, and walk in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have not sat with vain persons,- I never took counsel with them; they never were my choice companions. Psa_26:4. Neither will I go in with dissemblers. He makes a vow for the future that all crafty, lying, and foolish men shall never have his companionship.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I have hated the congregation of evildoers,.... That do harm to the persons, characters, or properties of men; and who meet together in bodies, to consult and form schemes to do mischief, and have their assemblies to encourage each other in it; these, their works and actions, the psalmist hated, though not their persons; and showed his displicency...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have hated the congregation of evil doers, and will not sit with the wicked. By which he does not mean that he does not associate with them in any way for we must needs go out of the world if we will not have communion with sinners; but he means that he did not seek their company, found no pleasure in it, and never went in it to abet them in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will wash my hands in innocency,.... The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "among innocent persons"; men of a holy harmless life and conversation; with these he determined to converse in common, and not with such as before described; or the sense is, that he would wash his hands, in token of his innocence, integrity, and uprightness, he had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will wash mine hands in innocency: Pilate did this, but alas! the water was very dirty in which he washed his hands. This was an old Jewish rite when a man was found murdered; if the people in the valley in which he was found would be free from the crime of murder they took a heifer, slew it, and then washed their hands in water over the head of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving,.... Or "cause to hear with the voice of confession" (z): the meaning is, that the view of the psalmist, in compassing the altar of God in the manner he proposed, was not to offer upon it any slain beast; but to offer the sacrifices of praise upon that altar, which sanctifies the gift, and from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth. I am sure many of us can say this, that when the Sabbath comes round, it is the best day of all the week, and that hour in the week-night when we can get to the house of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house,.... Meaning the tabernacle, for as yet the temple was not built; which was an habitation for the saints, where they chose to dwell, and reckoned it their happiness, and was the habitation of the Lord himself: the sanctuary was built for that purpose; and between the cherubim, over the mercy seat, he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Gather not my soul with sinners,.... Profligate and abandoned ones, such as are notoriously profane, and who live and die impenitent ones; otherwise all men are sinners: the sense is, either that he desires that he might not, by any means, be brought into the company of such persons, be joined unto them, and have a conversation with them, which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: in whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. See, he so loves God’s house that he cannot bear the thought of being shut in with sinners; and this is our comfort, that if we have loved God’s house on earth we shall dwell in his house for ever.