Psalms 1:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 1:8
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Psalms 119:92
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
Psalms 119:11
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Romans 7:22
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Psalms 119:97-99
MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-3)

The psalmist begins with the character and condition of a godly man, that those may first take the comfort of that to whom it belongs. Here is, I. A description of the godly man’s spirit and way, by which we are to try ourselves. The Lord knows those that are his by name, but we must know them by their character; for that is agreeable to a state of probation, that we may study to answer to the cha…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. law--all of God’s word then written, especially the books of Moses (compare Psa 119:1, 55, 97, &c.).