Psalms 147:20

“He hath not dealt so with any nation, etc.] Or “every nation”f1965; or all the nations under the heavens; only with the Jewish nation: these only for many hundreds of years were favoured with the divine revelation, with the word and ordinances of God; with the law, and with the Gospel, and with the service and worship of God; as well as with promises and prophecies of Christ, and good things to come by him. These were not communicated to anyone nation or body of people besides them; only now and then, to one here and there among the Gentiles: the Gospel was first preached to them at the coming of Christ, and after them to the Gentiles, when rejected by them; and [as for his] judgments, they…”

“He hath not dealt so with any nation - He has favored Israel more than any other people by giving them his revealed truth. This was so. There was no nation in the ancient world so favored as the Hebrew people in this respect. There is no nation now so favored as the nation that has the revealed will of God - the Bible. The possession of that book gives a nation a vast superiority in all respects over all others. In laws, customs, morals, intelligence, social life, purity, charity, prosperity, that book elevates a nation at once, and scatters blessings which can be derived from nothing else. The highest benevolence that could be shown to any nation would be to put it in possession of the word…”

“not dealt so: Deu 4:32-34; Pro 29:18; Isa 5:1-7; Mat 21:33-41; Act 14:16, Act 26:27, Act 26:18; Rom 3:1, Rom 3:2; Eph 2:12, Eph 5:8; Pe1 2:9, Pe1 2:10 Next: Psalms Chapter 148”