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1 Chronicles 16:26

1 Chronicles 16:26
For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

1 Chronicles 16:4-42

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Chronicles 16:7-36

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

the people R.V. the peoples.

made the heavens Cp. Jer 10:11, The gods that have not made the heavens … shall perish from the earth.