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2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)This psalm instructs us concerning a two-fold blessing:— I. Our blessing God, that is, speaking well of him, which here we are taught to do, Ps. 134:1 , 2 . 1. It is a call to the Levites to do it. They were the servants of the Lord by office, appointed to minister in holy things; they attended the sanctuary, and kept the charge of the house of the Lord, Num. 3:6-10 Some of them did by night stand…
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