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Raise a Hallelujah Biblical Review

By Bethel Music

Year: 2020
Lyrics: Available
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Themes

Spiritual warfareResurrection and victoryHope and peace

Doctrine

Resurrection Christology Sanctification

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Overall assessment

Praise Amid the Battle

Material concerns

The song is a fervent call to praise God through fear, opposition, and mourning, grounded in the living Lord’s victory over death. Its worshipful message is strongest when praise is response and testimony, but it should not imply that melody itself causes deliverance or compels heaven’s intervention.

Central message

The song calls believers to raise joyful praise amid hardship and opposition, trusting the living Lord who brings hope and victory over death.

Strengths

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It presents hope in mourning and celebrates Christ’s resurrection and victory over death through the living Lord.
It strongly expresses the biblical call to praise God through singing, instruments, and joyful hallelujah.
It portrays praise and whole-life devotion as fitting responses to God’s salvation and kingship.

Concerns

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material
The song makes melody the operative weapon and mechanism of victory, at points implying that singing causes heaven to fight, enemies to fall, or walls to come down. God—not the singing—sets the ambush and remains the decisive agent of victory; the prison deliverance is not presented as a repeatable mechanism caused by singing.
unresolved
The song echoes trust in God over fear and light overcoming darkness, but it does not establish praise itself as the means by which darkness flees or fear loses its hold.

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doctrinal assertionSupported
The reviewed passages establish hope amid mourning, Christ’s resurrection, and victory over death through the living Lord. Praising God in hardship is a fitting biblical response.
1 Corinthians 15:54–57
Close paraphraseMatches in context
Paul grounds Christian hope in resurrection and declares victory over death through Jesus Christ.
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1 Corinthians 15:52–58
⁵²in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed. ⁵³For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. ⁵⁴But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” ⁵⁵“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?” ⁵⁶The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. ⁵⁷But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵⁸Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Revelation 1:17–18
Close paraphraseMatches in context
The risen Christ identifies himself as the Living One who was dead and now lives forever.
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Revelation 1:15–20
¹⁵His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters. ¹⁶He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest. ¹⁷When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last, ¹⁸and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades. ¹⁹Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter. ²⁰The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies.
Isaiah 61:1–3
Close paraphraseMatches in context
God gives mourners beauty, joy, and praise in place of ashes and heaviness.
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Isaiah 61:1–5
¹The Lord GOD’s Spirit is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound, ²to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, ³to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified. ⁴They will rebuild the old ruins. They will raise up the former devastated places. They will repair the ruined cities that have been devastated for many generations. ⁵Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.
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doctrinal assertionCompatible, not established
The reviewed passages partly echo trusting God instead of fear and light overcoming darkness. They do not establish praise itself as the means by which darkness flees or fear loses its hold.
Psalms 56:3–4
Related themePartly matches in context
David responds to danger by trusting and praising God instead of remaining afraid.
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Psalms 56:1–6
¹For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Silent Dove in Distant Lands.” A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me. ²My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me. ³When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. ⁴In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? ⁵All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil. ⁶They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.
John 1:4–5
Close paraphrasePartly matches in context
John says Christ’s life and light shine in darkness, which cannot overcome them.
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John 1:2–7
²The same was in the beginning with God. ³All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made. ⁴In him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it. ⁶There came a man sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
2 Timothy 1:7
Related themePartly matches in context
Paul contrasts fear with God-given power, love, and self-control.
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2 Timothy 1:5–9
⁵having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also. ⁶For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. ⁷For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. ⁸Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, ⁹who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
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doctrinal assertionContextually misleading
The lyric makes melody the operative weapon and mechanism of victory. In 2 Chronicles, the LORD—not the singing—sets the ambush; God’s agency remains decisive in the other passages.
2 Chronicles 20:21–22
Clear allusionConflicts in context
Judah sings before battle, while the LORD independently sets ambushes and defeats the enemies.
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2 Chronicles 20:19–24
¹⁹The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD, the God of Israel, with an exceedingly loud voice. ²⁰They rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.” ²¹When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the LORD and give praise in holy array as they go out before the army, and say, “Give thanks to the LORD, for his loving kindness endures forever.” ²²When they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck. ²³For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. When they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy each other. ²⁴When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped.
Deuteronomy 20:3–4
Related themeMatches in context
God promises to accompany Israel, fight for them, and save them.
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Deuteronomy 20:1–6
¹When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you. ²It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people, ³and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them; ⁴for the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.” ⁵The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. ⁶What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.
Ephesians 6:10–18
Related themePartly matches in context
Believers stand in God’s strength using God’s armor, faith, prayer, and word.
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Ephesians 6:8–20
⁸knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free. ⁹You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him. ¹⁰Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. ¹¹Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹²For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. ¹³Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. ¹⁴Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace, ¹⁶above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one. ¹⁷And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; ¹⁸with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints. ¹⁹Pray for me, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News, ²⁰for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
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doctrinal assertionContextually misleading
The lyric makes melody the operative weapon and mechanism of victory. In 2 Chronicles, the LORD—not the singing—sets the ambush; God’s agency remains decisive in the other passages.
2 Chronicles 20:21–22
Clear allusionConflicts in context
The people sing before battle, while the LORD is the one who defeats the attacking armies.
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2 Chronicles 20:19–24
¹⁹The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD, the God of Israel, with an exceedingly loud voice. ²⁰They rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.” ²¹When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the LORD and give praise in holy array as they go out before the army, and say, “Give thanks to the LORD, for his loving kindness endures forever.” ²²When they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck. ²³For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. When they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy each other. ²⁴When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped.
Deuteronomy 20:3–4
Related themeMatches in context
The passage presents the LORD as Israel’s fighter and savior in battle.
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Deuteronomy 20:1–6
¹When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you. ²It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people, ³and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them; ⁴for the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.” ⁵The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. ⁶What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.
Ephesians 6:10–18
Related themePartly matches in context
Spiritual resistance depends on the Lord’s strength and the armor, word, faith, and prayer he supplies.
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Ephesians 6:8–20
⁸knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free. ⁹You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him. ¹⁰Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. ¹¹Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹²For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. ¹³Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. ¹⁴Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace, ¹⁶above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one. ¹⁷And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; ¹⁸with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints. ¹⁹Pray for me, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News, ²⁰for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
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devotional responseStrongly supported
The reviewed passages repeatedly call God’s people to praise him, including the heavenly hallelujah and praise expressed through singing and instruments.
Psalms 146:1–2
Related themeMatches in context
The psalm vows continual praise to the LORD throughout life.
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Psalms 146:1–4
¹Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, my soul. ²While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist. ³Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help. ⁴His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
Revelation 19:1–6
Direct quoteMatches in context
Heaven repeatedly cries “Hallelujah” while praising God’s salvation, judgment, and reign.
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Revelation 19:1–8
¹After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God; ²for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.” ³A second said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever.” ⁴The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, “Amen! Hallelujah!” ⁵A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!” ⁶I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns! ⁷Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.” ⁸It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
Psalms 150:1–6
Related themeMatches in context
The psalm commands everything with breath to praise the LORD with music.
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Psalms 150:1–6
¹Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! ²Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness! ³Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre! ⁴Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute! ⁵Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals! ⁶Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!
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doctrinal assertionContextually misleading
The lyric turns Paul and Silas’s singular prison deliverance into a repeatable mechanism caused by singing. Acts reports prayer and hymns before God’s extraordinary intervention, not melody as the decisive power.
Acts 16:25–26
Clear allusionConflicts in context
Paul and Silas sing in prison, followed by an extraordinary earthquake; the passage does not make singing the controlling mechanism.
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Acts 16:23–28
²³When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely. ²⁴Having received such a command, he threw them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks. ²⁵But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. ²⁶Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened. ²⁷The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. ²⁸But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”
Psalms 40:1–3
Related themePartly matches in context
David says God gives a new song after deliverance, presenting God as the giver of rescue and praise.
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Psalms 40:1–5
¹For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry. ²He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand. ³He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. ⁴Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies. ⁵Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
Matthew 6:9–10
Related themePartly matches in context
Jesus teaches prayer for God’s kingdom and will on earth, without assigning that work to singing.
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Matthew 6:7–12
⁷In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking. ⁸Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him. ⁹Pray like this: “‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. ¹⁰Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. ¹¹Give us today our daily bread. ¹²Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
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devotional responseSupported
The reviewed passages present banners connected with God’s salvation, joyful praise to the King, and offering one’s whole life to God as a living sacrifice.
Psalms 20:5
Close paraphraseMatches in context
Israel sets up banners in God’s saving name and trusts the LORD rather than military strength.
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Psalms 20:3–7
³remember all your offerings, and accept your burned sacrifice. Selah. ⁴May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel. ⁵We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May the LORD grant all your requests. ⁶Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand. ⁷Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
Psalms 98:4–6
Related themeMatches in context
All creation is summoned to sing joyfully before the King, the LORD.
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Psalms 98:2–8
²The LORD has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations. ³He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. ⁴Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises! ⁵Sing praises to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody. ⁶With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn, make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD. ⁷Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein. ⁸Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.
Romans 12:1
Close paraphraseMatches in context
Believers are urged to present their bodies entirely to God as a living sacrifice.
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Romans 12:1–3
¹Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. ²Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. ³For I say through the grace that was given me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
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devotional responseStrongly supported
The reviewed passages call God’s people to sing, make joyful noise, and praise the LORD with loud musical expression.
Psalms 98:4–6
Close paraphraseMatches in context
The psalm commands joyful singing and musical praise before the King.
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Psalms 98:2–8
²The LORD has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations. ³He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. ⁴Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises! ⁵Sing praises to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody. ⁶With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn, make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD. ⁷Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein. ⁸Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.
Psalms 146:1–2
Related themeMatches in context
The psalm vows to sing praises to God throughout life.
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Psalms 146:1–4
¹Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, my soul. ²While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist. ³Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help. ⁴His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
Psalms 150:1–6
Close paraphraseMatches in context
The psalm commands praise with loud cymbals and every available instrument.
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Psalms 150:1–6
¹Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! ²Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness! ³Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre! ⁴Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute! ⁵Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals! ⁶Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!
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doctrinal assertionContextually misleading
The lyric makes melody the operative weapon and mechanism of victory. In 2 Chronicles, the LORD—not the singing—sets the ambush; the other passages likewise ground victory in God’s strength.
2 Chronicles 20:21–22
Clear allusionConflicts in context
Judah sings before battle, while the LORD himself sets ambushes and defeats the enemies.
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2 Chronicles 20:19–24
¹⁹The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD, the God of Israel, with an exceedingly loud voice. ²⁰They rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.” ²¹When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the LORD and give praise in holy array as they go out before the army, and say, “Give thanks to the LORD, for his loving kindness endures forever.” ²²When they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck. ²³For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. When they had finished the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy each other. ²⁴When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped.
Ephesians 6:10–18
Related themePartly matches in context
Believers stand against spiritual evil in the Lord’s strength with God’s armor and prayer.
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Ephesians 6:8–20
⁸knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free. ⁹You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him. ¹⁰Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. ¹¹Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹²For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. ¹³Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. ¹⁴Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace, ¹⁶above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one. ¹⁷And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; ¹⁸with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints. ¹⁹Pray for me, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News, ²⁰for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
Deuteronomy 20:3–4
Related themeMatches in context
The LORD accompanies Israel, fights for them, and saves them in battle.
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Deuteronomy 20:1–6
¹When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you. ²It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people, ³and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them; ⁴for the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.” ⁵The officers shall speak to the people, saying, “What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. ⁶What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.

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