Psalms 139:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

Psalms 139:23 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 26:2
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
Job 31:6
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
1 Peter 1:7
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Proverbs 17:3
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God God Guidance Lord Majesty Self-Examination Theology

Commentary

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

(vv. 17-24)

Here the psalmist makes application of the doctrine of God’s omniscience, divers ways. I. He acknowledges, with wonder and thankfulness, the care God had taken of him all his days, Ps. 139:17, 18. God, who knew him, thought of him, and his thoughts towards him were thoughts of love, thought of good, and not of evil, Jer. 29:11. God’s omniscience, which might justly have watched over us to do us hu…