Psalm 68:18

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Psalm 68:18

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Summary

Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.

Ascended

Led

Judges 5:12

Received

For men

Rebellious

General references

Genesis 25:5

Exodus 29:45

Bible References

Ascended

Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord?
And who may stand in His holy place?

God has ascended with a shout,
The Lord, with the sound of a trumpet.

A Psalm of David.

The Lord says to my Lord:

“Sit at My right hand
Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

[Now after He had risen early on the first day of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.

While He was blessing them, He parted from them and was carried up into heaven.

until the day when He was taken up to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen.

Therefore it says,
“When He ascended on high,
He

led captive a host of captives,

And He gave gifts to men.”

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.

Led

“Awake, awake, Deborah;
Awake, awake, sing a song!
Arise, Barak, and take away your captives, O son of Abinoam.

Received

And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”

I will ask the Father, and He will give you another

Helper, that He may be with you forever;

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the

Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for

what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me;

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

Therefore it says,
“When He ascended on high,
He

led captive a host of captives,

And He gave gifts to men.”

For men

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and

upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Rebellious

“How long, O

naive ones, will you love being simple-minded?

And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing
And fools hate knowledge?

Let the wicked forsake his way

And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
And let him return to the Lord,
And He will have compassion on him,
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.

But go and learn

what this means: ‘I desire

compassion

, and not sacrifice,’ for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.

So Ananias departed and entered the house, and after laying his hands on him said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you were coming, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

General references

Now Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac;

I will dwell among the sons of Israel and will be their God.