Tag: God and His people

Cheth or Chet

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“I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts” (Psalm 119:63).

Cheth, the eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is about the relationship between God and His people. This relationship is seen from the beginning of Part 8: Cheth, when David says, “Thou art my portion” (Psalm 119:57). David’s declaration clearly asserts his desire for a relationship with God. Further, David declares his relationship with all the followers of God in verse 63, when he states, ” I am a companion of all them that fear thee”.

Matthew Henry speaks to this relationship among God’s people.

“David had often expressed the great love he had to God; here he expresses the great love he had to the people of God; and observe,

1. Why he loved them; not so much because they were his best friends, most firm to his interest and most forward to serve him, but because they were such as feared God and kept His precepts, and so did Him honour and helped to support His kingdom among men. Our love to the saints is then sincere when we love them for the sake of what we see of God in them and the service they do to Him.
2. How [David] showed his love to them; He was a companion of them. He had not only a spiritual communion with them in the same faitha and hope, but he joined with them in holy ordinances in the courts of the Lord, where rich and poor, prince and peasant, meet together” (Henry 572).

Works Cited

Henry, Matthew. “Psalm 119.” Matthew Henry’s Commentary On the Whole Bible: New Modern Edition. Volume 3, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., March 1996.

Holy Bible: Giant Print with Study Aids. Dugan Publishers, Inc., 1984.

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