Passage Research
Psalm 96 — Sermon Preparation
A psalm summoning all nations and all creation to sing a new song to the LORD, who is coming as the righteous judge of the earth. Below is a research summary for Psalm 96, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 13
- verses
- 112 / 67
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 6
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Psalm 96 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שִׁיר | shîyr | H7891 | 4 | song, singing |
| יָהַב | yâhab | H3051 | 3 | give, put |
| עַם | ʻam | H5971 | 5 | people, tribe |
| כָּבוֹד | kâbôwd | H3519 | 3 | weight, splendor |
| תֵּבֵל | têbêl | H8398 | 2 | earth, moist |
| עֹז | ʻôz | H5797 | 2 | strength, force |
| שָׁפַט | shâphaṭ | H8199 | 2 | judge, sentence |
How preachers through history handled this text
6 public-domain excerpts on Psalm 96, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“This psalm is part of that which was delivered into the hand of Asaph and his brethren (1 Chron. xvi. 7), by which it appears both that David was the penman of it and that it has reference to the bringing up of the ark to the city of David; whether that long psalm was made first, and this afterwards taken out of it, or this made first and afterwards borrowed to make up that, is not certain. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Psalm 96:1–30 (Public Domain)
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