Psalm 100:2-4 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 100:1-5

Here, I. The exhortations to praise are very importunate. The psalm does indeed answer to the title, A psalm of praise; it begins with that call which of late we have several times met with (Ps. 100:1), Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all you lands, or all the earth, all the inhabitants of the earth. When all nations shall be discipled, and the gospel preached to every creature, then this summons will be fully answered to. But, if we take the foregoing psalm to be (as we have opened it) a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 100:2

Serve the Lord with gladness ,.... Not with a slavish fear, under a spirit of bondage, as the Jews under the legal dispensation; not in the oldness of the letter, but in the newness of the Spirit: with spiritual joy and freedom of soul, as under the spirit of adoption; readily, willingly, cheerfully; without sinister and selfish ends and views; as their Lord and Master; taking delight in his person, and pleasure in his service; rejoicing in him, without having any confidence in the flesh: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 100:3

Know ye that the Lord he is God ,.... Own and acknowledge him to be God, as well as man; and though a man, yet not a mere man, but the great God and our Saviour, the true God and eternal life; so a man, as that he is Jehovah's fellow; or our God, as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions; Immanuel, God with us, God in our nature, God manifest in the flesh: it is he that hath made us ; as men, without whom nothing is made that was made; in him we live, move, and have our being; and, as new... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 100:4

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving ,.... The same with the gates of Zion, loved by the Lord more than all the dwellings of Jacob; the gates of Jerusalem, within which the feet of the saints stand with pleasure; the gates of Wisdom, or Christ, where his followers watch and wait; the gates into his house, the church, and the public ordinances of it, to be entered into with thankfulness for all mercies, temporal and spiritual; for the Gospel, and Gospel opportunities and ordinances: and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:2

Serve the Lord with gladness - It is your privilege and duty to be happy in your religious worship. The religion of the true God is intended to remove human misery, and to make mankind happy. He whom the religion of Christ has not made happy does not understand that religion, or does not make a proper use of it. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:3

Know ye that the Lord he is God - Acknowledge in every possible way, both in public and private, that Jehovah, the uncreated self-existent, and eternal Being, is Elohim, the God who is in covenant with man, to instruct, redeem, love, and make him finally happy. It is he that hath made us - He is our Creator and has consequently the only right in and over us. And not we ourselves - אנחנו ולא velo anachnu . I can never think that this is the true reading, though found in the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:4

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving - Publicly worship God; and when ye come to the house of prayer, be thankful that you have such a privilege; and when you enter his courts, praise him for the permission. The word בתודה bethodah , which we render with thanksgiving, is properly with the confession-offering or sacrifice. See on Psalm 100:1-5 ; (note). Bless his name - Bless Jehovah, that he is your Elohim; see Psalm 100:3 . In our liturgic service we say, "Speak good of his... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:3

Verse 3 The prophet next makes mention of the great benefits received from God, and, in an especial manner, desires the faithful to meditate upon them. To say God made us is a very generally acknowledged truth; but not to advert to the ingratitude so usual among men, that scarcely one among a hundred seriously acknowledges that he holds his existence from God, although, when hardly put to it, they do not deny that they were created out of nothing; yet every man makes a god of himself, and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:4

Verse 4 4Enter his gates The conclusion of the psalm is almost the same as the beginning of it, excepting that he adopts a mode of speech which relates to the worship of God which obtained under the law; (126) in which, however, he merely reminds us that believers, in rendering thanks to God, do not discharge their duty aright, unless they also continue in the practice of a steady profession of piety. Meanwhile, under the name of the temple, he signifies that God cannot be otherwise worshipped... read more

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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 100:1-5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 100:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 100:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 100:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 100:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 100:1-5

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