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"Hallelujah"
“Hallelujah.” This Hebrew word occurs twenty-eight times, and is eleven times transliterated “Hallelujah,” or, according to the Greek spelling in the New Testament, “Alleluia”: and is nineteen times translated, “Praise ye the Lord.”
But our question now asked, Where is the first occurrence of this word ? and by it to discover not merely the meaning of the word, but its significance and interpretation.
It is found first at the end of (Psalm 104:35
Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.).Its first occurrences in the New Testament is in precisely the same connection (Revelation 19:1-3
And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.).The word is thus associated with the thought of “judgment“: not necessary every time: for praise must be rendered for many things: but this is its first great theme.
This thought will not be inconsistent to those who “rightly divide the Word of truth,” and understand such “praise.” Though it is out of harmony in this “Dispensation of grace,” it is quite in keeping with the “past Dispensation of works” and the coming “Dispensation of Judgment.”
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