Psalms 132:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,

Psalms 132:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 6:4
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Ruth 3:18
Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.
Genesis 24:33
And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-10)

In these verses we have Solomon’s address to God for his favour to him and to his government, and his acceptance of his building a house to God’s name. Observe, I. What he pleads—two things:— 1. That what he had done was in pursuance of the pious vow which his father David had made to build a house for God. Solomon was a wise man, yet pleads not any merit of his own: “I am not worthy, for whom tho…

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

(vv. 4)

Psa 132:1-18. The writer, perhaps Solomon (compare Psa 132:8, 9), after relating David’s pious zeal for God’s service, pleads for the fulfilment of the promise (2Sa 7:16), which, providing for a perpetuation of David’s kingdom, involved that of God’s right worship and the establishment of the greater and spiritual kingdom of David’s greater Son. Of Him and His kingdom both the temple and its worsh…