George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 106:37
Of birth. A plentiful crop, facient fruges germina. (St. Jerome) (Calmet) --- Abundance of fruit shall grow in some places, while others are punished on account of sin. (Worthington)
Of birth. A plentiful crop, facient fruges germina. (St. Jerome) (Calmet) --- Abundance of fruit shall grow in some places, while others are punished on account of sin. (Worthington)
Verse Psalms 106:37. _THEY SACRIFICED THEIR SONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS UNTO_ _DEVILS._] See the places referred to in the margin (2 Kings 16:3; Isaiah 57:5;...
YEA, THEY SACRIFICED THEIR SONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS - See 2 Kings 16:3; Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 20:31; Isaiah 57:5.
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...
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...
DEVILS. demons. Compare Deuteronomy 32:17....
THEY SACRIFICED THEIR SONS, &C.— It is very certain, that the sacrifices of these gods were indeed as cruel as they are here represented. Philastrius observes expressly, says Mr. Selden, that the Jews...
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,...
They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: -From the fathers in the wilderness the Psalmist turns to the sons in Canaan. In the former half of the decade their sins...
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...
DEVILS] RV 'demons': see Deuteronomy 32:17....
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". ...
(34-39) The national sin after the settlement in Canaan....
DEVILS. — Literally, _lords,_ meaning, of course, the false deities. The word is, no doubt, chosen to represent the meaning of the heathen gods’ names _Ba’alîm, Adonîm._ For the same Hebrew word, see...
וַ יִּזְבְּח֣וּ אֶת ־בְּ֭נֵיהֶם וְ אֶת ־בְּנֹ
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...
REGARDED WHEN THEY CRIED Psalms 106:34 Israel's conquest of Canaan did not fulfill the divine mandate. The inhabitants, whose sins had become a menace to mankind, were allowed to exist side by side w...
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...
Yea, they sacrificed their (u) sons and their daughters unto devils, (u) He shows how monstrous a thing idolatry is, which can win us to things abhorring to nature, while God's word cannot obtain sma...
For the same reason as before, I include the whole of what is here rehearsed in one reading. But let not the Reader be as brief upon the interesting things here recorded. Let him consult the several p...
37._And they sacrificed _The prophet here mentions one species of superstition which demonstrates the awful blindness of the people; their not hesitating to sacrifice their sons and daughters to devil...
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...
YEA, THEY SACRIFICED THEIR SONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS UNTO DEVILS. Who have their name here given them from a word that signifies to waste and destroy, they being the destroyers of mankind. So the Targu...
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, Ver. 37. _Yea, they sacrificed their sons, &c._] The devils are here called Shedim, destroyers (in opposition to Shaddai, the Almighty...
_They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom_ Concerning whose destruction, _the Lord commanded them_ For when the iniquity of the Canaanites was full, it was God's will to extirpate their race,...
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...
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, by letting them pass through the fire of Hinnom or actually offering them to Moloch, the abomination of the Moabites, Leviticus 17:7,...
34-48 The conduct of the Israelites in Canaan, and God's dealings with them, show that the way of sin is down-hill; omissions make way for commissions: when they neglected to destroy the heathen, the...
Of which heathenish practice, SEE POOLE ON "LEVITICUS 18:21". UNTO DEVILS; by which expression he informeth them that they did not worship God, as they pretended and sometimes designed, but devils in...
Psalms 106:37 sacrificed H2076 (H8799) sons H1121 daughters H1323 demons H7700 they sacrificed - Deuteronomy
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
_They angered Him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes._ A GOOD MAN SUFFERING FOR A COMMUNITY, AND A COMMUNITY PURSUING ITS WAY TO DESTRUCTION I. A good man su...
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
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....
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:34 The psalmist refers to the recurring pattern in Judges 2:11, in which the people of Israel DID NOT DESTROY THE PEOPLES in Canaan (disobe
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...
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,...
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...
1 Corinthians 10:20; 2 Chronicles 11:15; 2 Kings 16:3; 2 Kings 17:17;...
Devils — They did not worship God as they pretended, but devils in their idols; for those spirits, which were supposed by the Heathen idolaters to inhabit in their images, were not good spirits, but e...