Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name.
Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name. That he that was so great, and so much above them, should take notice of them, and bestow so many great and good things on them.
Source: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
For this we must thank God, and sing praise to His holy name. By the partic. , from , confess, praise, the praising of God is characterized as an enduring praise, always rising anew.
Source: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(13) Now therefore, our God, we thank you.And now, our God, we are thanking you, and praising (participants in the Hebrew). mmm, thanking, occurs nowhere else, though the verb is common in other forms.
Thy glorious name.The name of your glory: here only. (Comp. Isa. 63:14and Psa. 72:19.)
Source: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Nothing can be more sweet, more interesting, more expressive. He first begins in blessing. Who so worthy to be praised as the Lord, as he is in himself? What so suitable for man to offer as praise for the blessings he bestows, as he manifests himself to his creatures from him? And Reader, do observe how David dwells upon the distinguishing excellencies of Jehovah! both greatness and power, and glory, and victory, and majesty, are his. Not only his as the author, but peculiarly his as the very properties and attributes of his nature. To give, therefore, anything to such a being, is but to give him of his own, for all are his of him already. In contributing therefore to the building of this house for the Lord, we in fact do nothing but what the Lord gives the power and ability to do. And Reader! do mark this thought as strikingly worthy of the highest attention; the more any man doth for the Lord, the more highly is that man the Lord’s debtor, in that what he doth is from the Lord’s giving ability to do it; and not only giving the ability, but giving grace and disposition to do it. So that the most laborious servant of Jesus is the greatest debtor; and he that is enabled to do most is the most indebted for being singled out and qualified for the service. Blessed Jesus! oh! for grace to be employed more frequently and earnestly by thee, that I might thereby become the more insolvent and thy prisoner. There is a great beauty in the close of this prayer, in beseeching the Lord to keep alive in the minds of the people the Lord’s goodness, and to bless his son Solomon with a heart suited to the Lord’s mercies.
Source: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
1Ch 29:13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
See 13. And praise thy glorious name. ]With our hearts, lips, and offerings, even the best of our substance, professing that we could esteem thee yet more and better if it were in our power. A thankful man is worth his weight in gold; he giveth the glory of all that he enjoyeth to God alone, like as solid bodies reflect the sun’s heat.
Source: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
we thank: Psa 105:1, Psa 106:1, Dan 2:23, 2Co 2:14, 2Co 8:16, 2Co 9:15, 1Th 2:13
Reciprocal: Neh 9:5 – thy glorious Psa 86:12 – praise Psa 100:4 – be thankful Psa 119:7 – I will Isa 63:14 – to make Mat 11:25 – I thank 2Co 8:3 – beyond Gal 1:5 – whom
Source: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
THANKS AND PRAISE
Now therefore, our God, we thank Thee, and praise Thy glorious name.
1Ch 29:13
Let us consider our text in the following way:
I. There is the argument for praise. Now therefore. This brings us, of course, clearly back to the beginning of the prayer. David begins: Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is Thine; Thine is the Kingdom, O Lord, and Thou art exalted as Head above all. Notice (a) the first argument for praise which we see in these words: David recognized the personality of God. Take away the personality of God, and what have you left? See how David thinks on this occasion: Blessed be Thou, our Father, for ever and ever; (b) and so we see a second argument for praise, namely, the perfections of God. You notice He is spoken of as our Father. Here, then, is an argument for our praise, that in Christ we sinful men and women and none of us knows the extent of our sin are permitted not only to have our forgiveness assured, but we are brought into perfect relationship with our Triune God. Then notice the other perfections: Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty. The more we study our God as He is revealed to us in the Scriptures, the more will our hearts well up in praise unto Him. (c) David points out another argument for praise, the perpetuity of God: For ever and ever. Our God never can change. He is for ever and ever eternally the same. Is not that an argument for praise? (d) There is another great argument, and this is brought out very clearly by David: Thou art exalted as Head above all. Hence the pre-eminence of God is an argument for praise. Our God is pre-eminently the Highest of the high, the King of kings, Lord of lords. (e) Notice once more: David writes that the Providence of God is an argument for praise. He points out that if he had collected this wonderful, almost fabulous, amount of wealth for the building of the Temple, it was, after all, only because God had provided it. God had led the people to give, God had inclined their hearts to give willingly. (f) Then notice, David brings out another argument for praise in the poverty of man. He says, Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer? We are paupers. Whatever we have we have of Him, through Him. Were it not for His grace from him which David magnified in this prayer, and which is another argument for praise, we should not be where we are to-day.
II. Let us notice the analysis of praise: Now therefore, our God, we thank Thee. Thankfulness comes from thoughtfulness, and we say, Praise Thy glorious Name. Praise is the price or value we put upon God; hence the old English word appraiser, a man who puts a price on goods. When we think of our God, oh, what cannot He do! (a) We will praise Him first for His pardona present perfect one: Thy sin and iniquities will I remember no more. (b) Then praise Him for His righteousness, the imputed righteousness of Jesus. (c) Then we thank Him for His acceptance of him. He has accepted us. (d) We praise Him for His inheritance. As a loving Father He lavishes His gifts upon His children of him, temporal, spiritual, physical. (e) We praise Him because He calls us into His service. Earthly people think it a high honor to serve an earthly king, to be an ambassador for a king. Look at us going forth with a message of reconciliation as ambassadors, proclaiming to the world, Be ye reconciled to God. (f) We will praise Him for His exceeding grace. Some day we shall understand that loving Father of ours, Who sent a Savior to die for us, is just simply anxious to give all to us on one solitary line of argument that is, the argument of grace. It is because we are nothing and doing nothing that He will give everything.
III. In conclusion, I touch on the absorption of praise: And praise Thy glorious Name. The Name of God study it; it reveals His character of him. Let us praise His Name of him (a) His nature of him; (b) His attributes of him; (c) His mercy from him; (d) His eternity from him.
IV. But there is an anxious inquiry. Are we praising Him? It is perfectly clear that if the Spirit of God works a work in us He does two things: He brings us down, first of all down from our idea of ourselves to the very lowest point. And then He lifts us up. Oh! if I see the depth into which I have gone through sin, and then I see the height to which I am attained, shall I not praise Him?
Rev. W.R. Mowll.
illustration
David here exercises a priestly function. He voices the joy of his own heart and that of his people from him in a psalm of great beauty. It first ascribes all inherent excellencies to Jehovah, and recognizes His throne and kingdom of him. Then it recognizes that all the riches and honor which men possess are from Him. Thus it acknowledges the fitness of their giving of their best to Him, and at the same time confesses that their very gifts have first been received from Him.
Source: Church Pulpit Commentary
1Ch 29:13-14. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee The more we do for God, the more we are indebted to him for the honor of being employed in his service by him, and for grace to enable us in any measure to serve him. Doth he therefore thank that servant? said Jesus. No: but that servant has a great deal of reason to thank him. Who am I, and what is my people? David was the most honorable person, and Israel the most honorable people, then in the world; yet thus he speaks of himself and them, as utterly unworthy of the divine cognition and favour. David now appeared very great in the eyes of men, presiding in an August assembly, appointing his successor to him, and making a noble present to the honor of God; and yet, being little and low in his own eyes, he asks, Who am I, O Lord! that we should be able to offer so willingly That thou shouldest give us both riches to make such an offering, and a willing heart to offer them, both which are the gifts and fruits of thy grace and mercy to us. God works ill his people both to will and to do, and it is a great instance of the power of his grace in us to be able to do his work willingly. Of thine own have we given thee We return only what we have received, and therefore only pay a debt, or rather, the small part of a debt due to thee. Thus we ought to give God all the glory of all the good that is at any time done by ourselves or others. Our own good works must not be the matter of our pride, nor the good works of others of our flattery, but both the matter of our praise; for certainly it is the greatest honor and pleasure in the world faithfully to serve God.