Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 96:5

"For all the gods of the peoples are idols; But Jehovah made the heavens." — Psalms 96:5 (ASV)

Idols. — Literally, nothings; Heb. elîlîm, with a play on the word el, God. This plainly shows that by Gods, in Psalms 96:4, the heathen deities, and not angels, are meant. (See Note, Psalms 95:3.) The Septuagint sometimes renders the Hebrew word “idols,” sometimes “vanities,” but here “demons.” Symmachus “nonexistences.”

But the Lord made the heavens. — Nothings could not do that, but only Jehovah.