1 Chronicles 16:25
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.
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This passage is interposed by the writer of Chronicles between two sentences of the parallel passage in Samuel. It contains a detailed account of the service which David instituted at this time, a…
We have here the thanksgiving psalm which David, by the Spirit, composed, and delivered to the chief musician, to be sung upon occasion of the public entry the ark made into the tent prepared for it.…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
to be feared above all gods i.e. to be feared as being above all "that are called gods," these being "things of nought" (1Ch 16:26, R.V. mg.). The real existence of false gods is not assumed.
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