Psalms 96:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

Psalms 96:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 115:15
Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
Isaiah 42:5
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Jeremiah 10:11-12
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. …
1 Corinthians 8:4
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
Psalms 135:18
They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-9)

These verses will be best expounded by pious and devout affections working in our souls towards God, with a high veneration for his majesty and transcendent excellency. The call here given us to praise God is very lively, the expressions are raised and repeated, to all which the echo of a thankful heart should make agreeable returns. I. We are here required to honour God, 1. With songs, Ps. 96:1,…

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

(vv. 5)

4-5. For He is not a local God, but of universal agency, while idols are nothing.