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Psalm 100 Bible study: Enter into his gates with thanksgiving

Psalm 100 is the only psalm whose title has todah, "thanksgiving" (100:1). Its seven calls go out to "all you lands" (100:1), and twice a line about the LORD opens with the same small Hebrew word, ki: "Know that the LORD, he is God" (100:3), and "For the LORD is good" (100:5).

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“Know that the LORD, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”
Psalm 100:3 · World English Bible

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“Psalm 100 opens by calling "all you lands" to shout for joy to the LORD.”

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What's really going on

Seven calls, and what they rest on

In the text

Psalm 100 is five verses long, and most of it is calls. "Shout for joy to the LORD, all you lands!" (100:1) (tap Shout for joy). "Serve the LORD with gladness. Come before his presence with singing" (100:2) (tap Serve, gladness, Come, singing). "Know that the LORD, he is God" (100:3) (tap Know). "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name" (100:4) (tap gates, courts, thanks). That is seven: shout, serve, come, know, enter, give thanks, bless. In Hebrew each is a command spoken to many people at once. Here is what almost everyone misses: twice a line about the LORD opens with the same small Hebrew word, ki. The first says what to know: "Know that the LORD, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his" (100:3), where ki is the WEB's that. The second gives a reason: "For the LORD is good" (100:5), where ki is the WEB's For. Both are about the LORD: who he is, what he has made, and what he is like.

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  • "A Psalm of thanksgiving"
  • He made us, and we are his
  • The same words, heard again in Jeremiah
  • The same call in Psalm 98
  • "They were yours"
  • 5 questions as you read
  • 13 more Hebrew words
  • A short check at the end
  • Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it

תּוֹדָהtodahsay to-DAH

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "thanksgiving", and also "thank-offering". Strong's: "properly, an extension of the hand, i.e. (by implication) avowal, or (usually) adoration", "from 3034". It is in the title, "A Psalm of thanksgiving" (100:1), and again in "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving" (100:4). The Psalms have it 12 times in Hebrew, and this is the only psalm title that has it. Psalm 50's notes follow it with the verb offer (Psalm 50:14). Psalm 95 has it in "Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving" (Psalm 95:2).

For your group

Psalm 100 Bible study questions

  1. 1"Serve the LORD with gladness" (100:2). What is something you do for God that you'd like to do with more gladness, and what might help?
  2. 2"It is he who has made us, and we are his" (100:3). What difference does it make to you, this week, that you belong to the one who made you?
  3. 3"Enter into his gates with thanksgiving" (100:4). What will you thank God for as your group comes together this week?

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