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Selected Verse: Psalms 29:8 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 29:8 |
Strong Concordance |
The voice [06963] of the LORD [03068] shaketh [02342] the wilderness [04057]; the LORD [03068] shaketh [02342] the wilderness [04057] of Kadesh [06946]. |
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King James |
The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| the wilderness--especially Kadesh, south of Judea, is selected as another scene of this display of divine power, as a vast and desolate region impresses the mind, like mountains, with images of grandeur. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Shaketh the wilderness - Causes it to shake or to tremble. The word used here means properly to dance; to be whirled or twisted upon anything; to twist - as with pain - or, to writhe; and then, to tremble, to quake. The forests are made to tremble or quake in the fierceness of the storm - referring still to what the thunder seems to do.
The wilderness of Kadesh - As in referring Psa 29:5-6 to the effect of the storm on lofty trees, the psalmist had given poetic beauty to the description by "specifying" Lebanon and Sirion, so he here refers, for the same purpose, to a particular forest as illustrating the power of the tempest - to wit, the forest or wilderness of "Kadesh." This wilderness or forest was on the southeastern border of the promised land, toward Edom; and it is memorable as having been the place where the Israelites twice encamped with a view of entering Palestine from that point, but from where they were twice driven back again - the first time in pursuance of the sentence that they should wander forty years in the wilderness - and the second time, from the refusal of the king of Edom to allow them to pass through his territories. It was from Kadesh that the spies entered Palestine. See Num 13:17, Num 13:26; Num 14:40-45; Num 21:1-3; Deu 1:41-46; Jdg 1:7. Kadesh was on the northern border of Edom, and not far from Mount Hor. See Robinson's Biblical Researches in Palestine, vol. ii. pp. 582, 610, 662; Kitto, Cyclo-Bib. in the article, "Kadesh;" and the Pictorial Bible on Num 20:1. There seems to have been nothing special in regard to this wilderness which led the author of the psalm to select it for his illustration, except that it was well known and commonly spoken of, and that it would thus suggest an image that would be familiar to the Israelites. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Kadesh - An eminent wilderness, vast and terrible, and well known to the Israelites, and wherein possibly they had seen, and observed some such effects of thunder. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The wilderness of Kadesh - This was on the frontiers of Idumea and Paran. There may be a reference to some terrible thunder-storm and earthquake which had occurred in that place. |
1 Then came [0935] the children [01121] of Israel [03478], even the whole congregation [05712], into the desert [04057] of Zin [06790] in the first [07223] month [02320]: and the people [05971] abode [03427] in Kadesh [06946]; and Miriam [04813] died [04191] there, and was buried [06912] there.
7 And Adonibezek [0137] said [0559], Threescore and ten [07657] kings [04428], having their thumbs [0931] [03027] and their great toes [07272] cut off [07112], gathered [03950] their meat under my table [07979]: as I have done [06213], so God [0430] hath requited [07999] me. And they brought [0935] him to Jerusalem [03389], and there he died [04191].
41 Then ye answered [06030] and said [0559] unto me, We have sinned [02398] against the LORD [03068], we will go up [05927] and fight [03898], according to all that the LORD [03068] our God [0430] commanded [06680] us. And when ye had girded [02296] on every man [0376] his weapons [03627] of war [04421], ye were ready [01951] to go up [05927] into the hill [02022].
42 And the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto me, Say [0559] unto them, Go not up [05927], neither fight [03898]; for I am not among [07130] you; lest ye be smitten [05062] before [06440] your enemies [0341].
43 So I spake [01696] unto you; and ye would not hear [08085], but rebelled [04784] against the commandment [06310] of the LORD [03068], and went [05927] presumptuously [02102] up [05927] into the hill [02022].
44 And the Amorites [0567], which dwelt [03427] in that mountain [02022], came out [03318] against [07125] you, and chased [07291] you, as bees [01682] do [06213], and destroyed [03807] you in Seir [08165], even unto Hormah [02767].
45 And ye returned [07725] and wept [01058] before [06440] the LORD [03068]; but the LORD [03068] would not hearken [08085] to your voice [06963], nor give ear [0238] unto you.
46 So ye abode [03427] in Kadesh [06946] many [07227] days [03117], according unto the days [03117] that ye abode [03427] there.
1 And when king [04428] Arad [06166] the Canaanite [03669], which dwelt [03427] in the south [05045], heard [08085] tell that Israel [03478] came [0935] by the way [01870] of the spies [0871]; then he fought [03898] against Israel [03478], and took [07617] some of them prisoners [07628].
2 And Israel [03478] vowed [05087] a vow [05088] unto the LORD [03068], and said [0559], If thou wilt indeed [05414] deliver [05414] this people [05971] into my hand [03027], then I will utterly destroy [02763] their cities [05892].
3 And the LORD [03068] hearkened [08085] to the voice [06963] of Israel [03478], and delivered up [05414] the Canaanites [03669]; and they utterly destroyed [02763] them and their cities [05892]: and he called [07121] the name [08034] of the place [04725] Hormah [02767].
40 And they rose up early [07925] in the morning [01242], and gat them up [05927] into the top [07218] of the mountain [02022], saying [0559], Lo [02009], we be here, and will go up [05927] unto the place [04725] which the LORD [03068] hath promised [0559]: for we have sinned [02398].
41 And Moses [04872] said [0559], Wherefore now do ye transgress [05674] the commandment [06310] of the LORD [03068]? but it shall not prosper [06743].
42 Go not up [05927], for the LORD [03068] is not among [07130] you; that ye be not smitten [05062] before [06440] your enemies [0341].
43 For the Amalekites [06003] and the Canaanites [03669] are there before [06440] you, and ye shall fall [05307] by the sword [02719]: because ye are turned [07725] away [0310] from the LORD [03068], therefore the LORD [03068] will not be with you.
44 But they presumed [06075] to go up [05927] unto the hill [02022] top [07218]: nevertheless the ark [0727] of the covenant [01285] of the LORD [03068], and Moses [04872], departed [04185] not out [07130] of the camp [04264].
45 Then the Amalekites [06003] came down [03381], and the Canaanites [03669] which dwelt [03427] in that hill [02022], and smote [05221] them, and discomfited [03807] them, even unto Hormah [02767].
26 And they went [03212] and came [0935] to Moses [04872], and to Aaron [0175], and to all the congregation [05712] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], unto the wilderness [04057] of Paran [06290], to Kadesh [06946]; and brought back [07725] word [01697] unto them, and unto all the congregation [05712], and shewed [07200] them the fruit [06529] of the land [0776].
17 And Moses [04872] sent [07971] them to spy out [08446] the land [0776] of Canaan [03667], and said [0559] unto them, Get you up [05927] this way southward [05045], and go up [05927] into the mountain [02022]:
5 The voice [06963] of the LORD [03068] breaketh [07665] the cedars [0730]; yea, the LORD [03068] breaketh [07665] the cedars [0730] of Lebanon [03844].
6 He maketh them also to skip [07540] like a calf [05695]; Lebanon [03844] and Sirion [08303] like a young [01121] unicorn [07214].