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Ps 96:4 King James For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
For He is not a local God, but of universal agency, while idols are nothing.
 
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25 For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.
13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
6 Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
6 Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
3 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.
4 For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.