Passage Research
Psalm 101 — Sermon Preparation
A David psalm in which the king vows to walk blamelessly, shunning wickedness in his household and removing evil from the land. Below is a research summary for Psalm 101, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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Psalm 101 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עַיִן | ʻayin | H5869 | 4 | eye, fountain |
| לֵבָב | lêbâb | H3824 | 3 | heart |
| צָמַת | tsâmath | H6789 | 2 | extirpate |
| תָּמִים | tâmîym | H8549 | 2 | entire, integrity |
| קֶרֶב | qereb | H7130 | 2 | nearest, center |
| הָלַךְ | hâlak | H1980 | 2 | walk |
| דֶּרֶךְ | derek | H1870 | 2 | road, trodden |
How preachers through history handled this text
6 public-domain excerpts on Psalm 101, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“David was certainly the penman of this psalm, and it has in it the genuine spirit of the man after God's own heart; it is a solemn vow which he made to God when he took upon him the charge of a family and of the kingdom. Whether it was penned when he entered upon the government, immediately after the death of Saul (as some think), or when he began to reign over all Israel, and brought up the ark to the city of David (as others think), is not material; …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Psalm 101:1–30 (Public Domain)
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