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HE CLAVE THE ROCKS IN THE WILDERNESS - There were two occasions on
which the rock was smitten for water; one Exodus 17:6 at Mount Horeb,
shortly after they came out of Egypt; and the other Numbers 20:...
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PSALM 78-83
Psalms 78
A Historical Retrospect
_ 1. The call to hear (Psalms 78:1)_
2. Ephraim's failure (Psalms 78:9)
3. His dealings in power and mercy ...
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LXXVIII. THE LESSON OF ISRAEL'S HISTORY. The northern tribes have been
perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the
schismatical religion of the Samaritans. God, on the contrary, ha...
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CLAVE. Hebrew. _baka'_ (in Piel), implying repeated cleaving.
ROCKS. Hebrew. _zur._ Same word as in Exodus 17. The two events
brought together here.
DRINK AS OUT OF. Some codices, with seven early p...
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Israel's disobedience and ingratitude, in spite of all God's mercies
to them at the Exodus and in the wilderness....
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He clave rocks in the wilderness,
And gave them drink as out of the depths abundantly:
And he brought forth streams out of a cliff.
Two different words are used, with reference to the two occasions...
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PSALMS 78
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
A Didactic Poem, Counselling the Re-union of the Tribes.
ANALYSIS
Part I.THE PRELUDE
(1) An Invitation to Attend to a Series of Problems Drawn from
AntiquityPsalms 78:...
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Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land
of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
-The unbelief of the Israelite fathers is detailed as a sad contrast
to God's marvels performed i...
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This long historical Ps. may be compared with Psalms 105, 106, and
with Deuteronomy 32. It traces the course of God's relations with His
people from the exodus down to the time of David, and dwells on...
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Psalms 73:89
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
TELL YOUR CHILDREN
PSALMS 78
Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me. Do not stop them".
(Matthew 19
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AND GAVE... — Literally, _and gave them to drink as it were a great
deep,_ or as we might say, “oceans of drink” — a poetical
exaggeration; or are we rather to think of the gift of water as
produced b...
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יְבַקַּ֣ע צֻ֭רִים בַּ † מִּדְבָּ֑ר
וַ֝ יַּ֗שְׁקְ...
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Psalms 78:1
THIS psalm is closely related to Psalms 105:1; Psalms 106:1; Psalms
107:1. Like them, it treats the history of Israel, and esp
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“A TABLE IN THE WILDERNESS”
Psalms 78:13
Throughout this wonderful recital there is a perpetual contrast
between God's unswerving goodness and the incessant backsliding of His
people; and as we read...
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The supreme quantity of this psalm is that throughout all its
measures, over against the repeated failure of His people God's
persistent patience is set forth in bold relief. The purpose of the
psalm,...
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We need only refer to the history of Israel in the wilderness, to
discover to what particular period of the church the prophet in these
verses refers. Perhaps, as in several other parts of scripture,...
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15._He clave the rocks in the wilderness. _The Psalmist produces
another evidence of the fatherly love by which God testified the
greatness of the care which he exercised about the welfare of this
peo...
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In Psalms 78 the conduct of Israel is discussed by wisdom,
historically as regards the whole people, but with very important
principles brought out. There was not only a redemption of old, to
which fa...
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HE CLAVE THE ROCKS IN THE WILDERNESS,.... The one at Rephidim, Exodus
17:1, and the other at Kadesh, Numbers 20:1 both to be seen at this
day; Exodus 17:1,...
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He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as [out
of] the great depths.
Ver. 15. _He clave the rocks_] And set them abroach, both that in
Rephidim, Exodus 17:1,8, and the other in K...
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_Marvellous things did he in the field_ That is, in the territory or
jurisdiction, not excluding the city itself; _of Zoan_ An ancient and
eminent city of Egypt. _In the day-time he led them with a cl...
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1-8 These are called dark and deep sayings, because they are
carefully to be looked into. The law of God was given with a
particular charge to teach it diligently to their children, that the
church m...
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ROCKS; he useth the plural number, because it was twice done; once in
Rephidim, EXODUS 17:6, and again in Kadesh, NUMBERS 20:1,11. THE GREAT
DEPTHS; in great abundance....
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Psalms 78:15 split H1234 (H8762) rocks H6697 wilderness H4057 drink
H8248 (H8686) abundance H7227 depths H8415...
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The story of how the children of Israel behaved themselves towards
their gracious God.
Psalms 78:10. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk
in his law; and forgat his works, and his w...
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This story of the children of Israel, after they came out of Egypt, is
like a looking-glass in which we may, with great sadness, see
ourselves reflected.
Psalms 78:9. _The children of Ephraim, being...
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CONTENTS: Israel's sins wherewith they had provoked God. The tokens of
God's displeasure as the result.
CHARACTERS: God, Asaph.
CONCLUSION: God's people limit Him by forgetfulness of His benefits
(Ps...
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Title. _Maschil of Asaph._ Rabbi Kimchi says, that this title, which
signifies to give instruction, designates also the species of music or
melody to which the words were set, as is now the practice o...
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_He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of
the great depths._
STREAMS FROM THE ROCK
I. Consider thy rock as a representation of Christ.
1. What does a rock remind us of?...
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_The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back
in the day of battle._
GOD IN HUMAN HISTORY
I. A people is a community that are most favoured with privileges are
oftentimes the...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare
Psalms 105:1; P
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:9 The first historical section recounts an
otherwise unknown incident in which THE EPHRAIMITES... TURNED BACK ON
THE DAY OF BATTLE. Presumably this was a battle in which all Is...
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription,—“Maschil of Asaph_,” _i.e._, an instruction of
Asaph, a didactic song by Asaph. The Psalm was probably written by the
celebrated Asaph in the time of David.
_Occasion_.—...
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EXPOSITION
This, the first of the "historical psalms," though assigned by the
rationalistic school (De Wette, Ewald, Koster, Hitzig) to a period
subsequent to the Captivity, is generally allowed by mo...
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Psa 78:1-72 is a psalm that rehearses the history of God's people. And
the psalm was written in order to remind the children, the coming
generation, of the works of the Lord. One of the important obli...
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1 Corinthians 10:4; Exodus 17:6; Isaiah 41:18; Isaiah 43:20; John 7:37
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Wilderness — In Rephidim, and again in Kadesh....