Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
The verse belongs to the inspiring psalm sung when the ark of God was brought to Jerusalem. It stands in 1 Chronicles 16:8-22, which appears almost word for word as Psalm 105:1-15 and contains the opening verses of Psalm 105. The following verses, 23-33, parallel Psalm 96 with slight variations. As Hebrew poetry and not prose, its figurative expressions must not be taken literally, just as plain prose statements must not be raised to the fervor of poetic diction. It calls God's people to remember His mighty works, wonders, and judgments.
The judgments of His mouth are God's law. The Hebrew word translated judgments is mish-pat, the same word used for His commandments, statutes, ordinances, and precepts, meaning the divine will revealed in His law, the ten commandments, so that doing them is obeying His law and walking in His precepts. Israel was to remember and declare among the nations what God had done so that the Gentiles might be converted. The truth given to Israel was not for Israel alone, but the whole nation was to act as God's priest to the world by living the law and declaring His glory, and when people from the nations gave themselves to God, one law applied to both Jew and Gentile. The verse stands with the chapter's promise to Abraham, which extends to a thousand generations, yet that long duration does not prove the end of the world is far away, because the promised land is for those who belong to Christ, not for the Jews as a people by descent.
The verse belongs to the inspiring psalm sung when the ark of God was brought to Jerusalem. It stands in 1 Chronicles 16:8-22, which appears almost word for word as Psalm 105:1-15 and contains the opening verses of Psalm 105. The following verses, 23-33, parallel Psalm 96 with slight variations. As Hebrew poetry and not prose, its figurative expressions must not be taken literally, just as plain prose statements must not be raised to the fervor of poetic diction. It calls God's people to remember His mighty works, wonders, and judgments.
The judgments of His mouth are God's law. The Hebrew word translated judgments is mish-pat, the same word used for His commandments, statutes, ordinances, and precepts, meaning the divine will revealed in His law, the ten commandments, so that doing them is obeying His law and walking in His precepts. Israel was to remember and declare among the nations what God had done so that the Gentiles might be converted. The truth given to Israel was not for Israel alone, but the whole nation was to act as God's priest to the world by living the law and declaring His glory, and when people from the nations gave themselves to God, one law applied to both Jew and Gentile. The verse stands with the chapter's promise to Abraham, which extends to a thousand generations, yet that long duration does not prove the end of the world is far away, because the promised land is for those who belong to Christ, not for the Jews as a people by descent.