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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Psalms 106:20

Word. Jesus Christ, according to the prophetical sense, adopted by the Fathers, (St. Athanasius, or. 3., &c.) though it literally implies, that at God's command the sick were healed, Matthew viii. 7. --- This allegory again represents the state of captivity. (Calmet)

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See also Psalms 106:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 106:20. _THUS THEY CHANGED THEIR GLORY_] That is, their God, who was their glory; and they worshipped an ox in his stead. See the use St Paul makes of this, Romans 1:23; see also the not...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THUS THEY CHANGED THEIR GLORY - Their true glory - the proper object of worship - God. Compare the notes at Romans 1:23. They “exchanged” that as an object of worship for the image of an ox. INTO THE...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 105 AND 106 The Memories of the Past The last two Psalms of this fourth section review the entire history of Israel up to the time of the judges. It is the story of God's faithfulness and merc...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    CVI. ISRAEL'S SIN. Psalms 106:1. Introduction. Praise to Yahweh for His power and greatness. The writer's desire to share in Israel's joy. PSALMS 106:3. HE THAT DOETH: read they that do. Psalms 106...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEIR GLORY. The primitive text was "My glory", but this was changed by the _Sopherim_ to "their" out of. mistaken reverence. See App-33. GLORY. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEY CHANGED THEIR GLORY— That is, their God, who was their glory; as Jeremiah 2:11. Compare Romans 1:23. This passage fully shews that the golden calf was intended as a symbolic representation of Jeh...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 106 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Humbled Israel Confessing Her Sins as a Nation. ANALYSIS Enclosed within an Introduction of Praise and Prayer, Psalms 106:1-5, and a Conclusion of Prayer and Doxology,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: -Three transgressions of Israel in the wilderness are detailed, rising in gradation of moral guilt, without respect to time: (1) Their...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    As Psalms 105 gives thanks for God's goodness, so Psalms 106 confesses Israel's sin and acknowledges God's mercy, both being illustrated in an historical retrospect from the deliverance from Egypt dow...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE *LORD IS GOOD! PSALMS 106 Jesus said, "Father, *forgive them. Because they do not know what they are doing". ...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (13-33) These twenty verses cover the desert wanderings, beginning with _the_ discontented spirit mentioned in Exodus 15:23....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEIR GLORY — _i.e.,_ Jehovah, as shown by Jeremiah 2:11. SIMILITUDE. — This is also a Deuteronomic word (Deuteronomy 4:16; Deuteronomy 4:18), meaning originally “structure,” from a root meaning “to b...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּמִ֥ירוּ אֶת ־כְּבֹודָ֑ם בְּ תַבְנִ֥ית ש

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 106:1 THE history of God's past is a record of continuous mercies, the history of man's, one of as continuous sin. The memory of the former quickened the psalmist into his sunny song of thankfu...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JUDGMENT RESTRAINED BY INTERCESSION Psalms 106:16 The strife between the ungodly and the servants of God has characterized all the centuries. These verses record some of its phases. Moses is called G...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The previous psalm called the people to talk of the “marvellous works” of Jehovah. This one calls to praise, and the reason is that “His mercy endureth for ever.” This fact is then illustrated by a de...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thus they changed their (k) glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. (k) He shows that all idolaters renounce God to be their glory when instead of him, they worship any creature much mo...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I include all these verses within one reading, though the Reader will recollect that they refer to several very interesting transactions at different periods in the church's history. But it would swel...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 106. "Hallelujah. Give thanks to Jehovah, for it is good (or He is good). His mercy endureth for ever." This last we have often seenthe expression of this unfailing faithful mercy of Jehovah, w...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THUS THEY CHANGED THEIR GLORY,.... God, who is glorious in all the perfections of his nature, and is glory itself, and was the glory of these people; it was their greatest honour that they had knowled...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. Ver. 20. _Thus they changed their glory_] _i.e._ Their God, Romans 1:23, the Creator for a contemptible creature. _ Of an...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _They made a calf in Horeb_ When they were but very lately brought out of Egypt, by such wonderful power and goodness of God, and had seen the dreadful plagues of God upon the Egyptian idolaters, and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    GOD'S BLESSINGS IN SPITE OF ISRAEL'S UNFAITHFULNESS. This psalm, whose author is not known, gives a detailed confession of the sins of Israel, as contrasted with the wonders of God's mercy, the concl...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thus they changed their glory, Jehovah, the true God Himself, as He had manifested and proved Himself before the people, INTO THE SIMILITUDE OF AN OX THAT EATETH GRASS....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    13-33 Those that will not wait for God's counsel, shall justly be given up to their own hearts' lusts, to walk in their own counsels. An undue desire, even for lawful things, becomes sinful. God show...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    CHANGED, as far as in them lay, and in respect of their worship. THEIR GLORY; their God, who was indeed their glory; for they had this just occasion of triumphing and glorying over all the nations of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 106:20 changed H4171 (H8686) glory H3519 image H8403 ox H7794 eats H398 (H8802) grass H6212...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 106:1. _Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever._ In this Psalm we have the history of God's people turned to practical account. I have...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    In this Psalm we have the story of God's ancient covenant people, and as we read it, we may read our own history in it if we also are his people. It is a looking-glass, in which the beholder may see h...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    This Psalm relates the story of God's mercy to Israel, of the people's provocation of Jehovah, and of his great patience with them. It commences with an exhortation to praise the Lord. Psalms 106:1....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The badness of Israel made heinous by the great goodness of God. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist, Moses, Aaron, Dathan, Abiram, Phinehas. CONCLUSION: Man's perverseness arises continually from hi...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This also is a Psalm of David, and is cited in 1 Chronicles 16., although the first and the two last verses only are there given. The subject is similar to that of the preseding psalm; and it was prob...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image._ THE IDOLATRY OF MAN AND THE INDIGNATION OF HEAVEN I. The idolatry of man (verses 19, 20). 1. The strength of the religious instinct. Ma...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:1. This historical psalm (see notes on Psalms 78 and 105) retells a series of events from Israel’s history to illustrate God’s steadfas

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:6 This is a list of incidents that begins at the shore of the Red Sea (vv. Psalms 106:7) and ends during the time of the judges (vv....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:19 The psalm moves on to the CALF IN HOREB, the “golden calf” (Exodus 32:1). They worshiped this idol because they were unfaithful ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “This it the first of a series of Hallelujah Psalms: Psalms of which the word Hallelujah is, as it were, the inscription (106, 111–113, 117, 135, 146–150.). As in the last Psalm, so here...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This is the first of the strictly "Hallelujah psalms"—_i.e._ of the psalms beginning with the phrase "hallelujah"—which are Psalms 106:1, Psalms 111:1, Psalms 112:1,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? Who can show forth all his praise? Blessed are they that ke...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 20:4; Exodus 20:5; Isaiah 40:18; Jeremiah 2:11; Psalms 89:17;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Their glory — God, who was indeed their glory. Into — Into the golden image of an ox or calf, which is so far from feeding his people, as the true God did the Israelites, that he must be fed by them....

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