Psalms 29:1 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 29:1

Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength.

KJV

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DBT

Give unto Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty ones, give unto Jehovah glory and strength;

ASV

Ascribe unto Jehovah, O ye sons of the mighty, Ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength.

WEB

Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

YLT

A Psalm of David. Ascribe to Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty, Ascribe to Jehovah honour and strength.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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21 verses on the floor

Revelation 4:11
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Psalms 96:7–9
Give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength.
Ephesians 3:21
Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Revelation 5:11–14
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
1 Chronicles 16:28–29
Give unto the Lord, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength.

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Give unto Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty. It was no doubt David's design to lead all men to worship and reverence God; but as it is more difficult to reduce great men, who excel in rank, to order, he expressly addresses himself to them. It is obvious, that the LXX, in giving the translation, sons of rams, were led into a mistake by the affinity of the Hebrew words.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

Crowned heads must bow before the King of kings. What is here said to the mighty is said to all: Worship God; it is the sum and substance of the everlasting gospel, Rev. xiv. Now we have here, (1.) The nature of religious worship; it is giving to the Lord the glory due to his name,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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