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E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 81:3

trumpet. Hebrew. shophar. See note on Numbers 10:2 . day. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, and Syriac, read "days" (plural): i.e. festivals. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Psalms 81:1

PSALM 81A HYMN AND HOMILY AT HARVEST TIMEThe title we have chosen is that of McCaw. Addis was sure that this psalm is a composite,[1] with no connection whatever between Psalms 81:1-5 and the rest of the chapter. Other scholars also have raised the possibility that what we have here is two fragments of independent productions. However, its seems to us that Yates' opinion on this is correct."The abrupt change at the end of verse 5 has suggested to many commentators that fragments of two psalms... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 81:1

Psalms 81:0. An exhortation to a solemn praising of God. God challengeth that duty by reason of his benefits. God, exhorting to obedience, complaineth of their disobedience, which proverb their own hurt. To the chief musician, upon Gittith: A Psalm of Asaph. Title. ףּלאס הגתית על למנצח lamnatseach al haggittith leasaph.] This psalm is supposed to have been written for the feast of trumpets. See Leviticus 23:24. In the Jewish Liturgy it is still made use of upon this occasion. To this the blowing... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 81:2

Psalms 81:2. Take a psalm— Lift up your voices in a psalm, or take up a psalm. Green. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 81:3

Psalms 81:3. Blow up the trumpet, &c.— Blow up the trumpet on the first day of the month, on the new moon, on the day of our feast. The feast of the new moon was always proclaimed by the sound of trumpets. The fixing the time of the new moon, for want of astronomical tables, was done in the following manner: the first persons who observed, or thought they observed, the new moon, were to repair immediately to the grand council to give notice of it. Inquiry was then made into the credibility... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 81:1-2

Asaph summoned the Israelites to sing joyfully to God their strength with musical accompaniment. read more

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