John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 119:56

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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This I had, because I kept thy precepts.] Either the comfort he had from the word, the pleasure and delight he had in it, being his songs in his pilgrimage, (<19B950>Psalm 119:50,54); (see <19B9165>Psalm 119:165); or this knowledge of the name of God, and the remembrance of it, and his carefulness and diligence in it in the night season, were of the Lord, and gifts of his: or rather this he had from the Lord, that he kept the precepts and commands of God in the manner that he did; it was all owing to grace and strength received from him; for so the words may be rendered, “this was [given] unto me, that I have kept thy precepts” f1661. j, CHETH.--The Eighth Part.

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