(13) Now therefore, our God, we thank thee.--And now, our God, we are thanking thee, and praising (participles in the Hebrew). Modim, "thanking," occurs nowhere else, though the verb is common in other forms.
Thy glorious name.--The name of thy glory: here only. (Comp. Isaiah 63:14, and Psalm 72:19.)
29:10-19 We cannot form a right idea of the magnificence of the temple, and the buildings around it, about which such quantities of gold and silver were employed. But the unsearchable riches of Christ exceed the splendour of the temple, infinitely more than that surpassed the meanest cottage on earth. Instead of boasting of these large oblations, David gave solemn thanks to the Lord. All they gave for the Lord's temple was his own; if they attempted to keep it, death would soon have removed them from it. They only use they could make of it to their real advantage, was, to consecrate it to the service of Him who gave it.
Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. That he that was so great, and so much above them, should take notice of them, and bestow so many great and good things on them.
Thy glorious name.--The name of thy glory: here only. (Comp. Isaiah 63:14, and Psalm 72:19.)