Psalms 16:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Psalms 16:10 —

Old words in this verse

suffer: — often: allow, permit.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 2:27-31
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. …
Acts 13:35-38
Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. …
Psalms 49:15
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Revelation 1:18
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Luke 16:23
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Topics

Body Corruption Dead (people)Death Gehenna Hades Hell Immortality

Commentary

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

(vv. 8-11)

All these verses are quoted by St. Peter in his first sermon, after the pouring out of the Spirit on the day of pentecost (Acts 2:25-28); and he tells us expressly that David in them speaks concerning Christ and particularly of his resurrection. Something we may allow here of the workings of David’s own pious and devout affections towards God, depending upon his grace to perfect every thing that c…

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

(vv. 10)

10. soul--or, “self.” This use of “soul” for the person is frequent (Ge 12:5; 46:26; Psa 3:2; 7:2; 11:1), even when the body may be the part chiefly affected, as in Psa 35:13; 105:18. Some cases are cited, as Le 22:4; Nu 6:6; 9:6, 10; 19:13; Hag 2:13, &c., which seem to justify assigning the meaning of body, or dead body; but it will be found that the latter sense is given by some adjunct expresse…