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Selected Verse: Psalms 34:20 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 34:20 |
King James |
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| bones--framework of the body. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
He keepeth all his bones - That is, he preserves or guards the righteous.
Not one of them is broken - Perhaps there is a direct and immediate allusion here to what the psalmist had himself experienced. In His dangers God had preserved him, so that he had escaped without a broken bone. But the statement is more general, and is designed to convey a truth in respect to the usual and proper effect of religion, or to denote the advantage, in reference to personal safety in the dangers of this life, derived from religion. The language is of a general character, such as often occurs in the Scriptures, and it should, in all fairness, be so construed. It cannot mean that the bones of a righteous man are never broken, or that the fact that a man has a broken bone proves that he is not righteous; but it means that, as a general principle, religion conduces to safety, or that the righteous are under the protection of God. Compare Mat 10:30-31. Nothing more can be demanded in the fair interpretation of the language than this. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
He keepeth
See (Exo 12:46); (Joh 19:36) |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Bones - All the parts and members of their bodies. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| He keepeth all his bones - He takes care of his life; and if he have scars, they are honorable ones. |
30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.