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YEA, THEY SPAKE AGAINST GOD - That is, in the manner which is
immediately specified - by calling in question his power, or his
ability to provide for them in the wilderness. See Numbers 11:4.
THEY SAI...
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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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SPAKE AGAINST. Compare Numbers 11:4....
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_Can God furnish_ R.V., Can God prepare?...
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In spite of these miracles of mercy they sinned yet more, and tempted
God in their unbelief, so that while He supplied their wants He was
compelled to punish them for their sin. The order is logical n...
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DISCOURSE: 632
THE EVIL OF UNBELIEF
Psalms 78:19. They spake against God: they said, Can God furnish a
table in the wilderness? Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters
gushed out, and the streams o...
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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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78:19 prepare (e-12) Or 'furnish,' as Proverbs 9:2 ....
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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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A comparison of these verses with the references in the margin shows
how the ancient narratives fared under poetical treatment.
FURNISH A TABLE. — Comp. Psalms 23:5, Note
GUSHED OUT. — Comp. Psalms...
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וַֽ יְדַבְּר֗וּ בֵּֽ אלֹ֫הִ֥ים
אָ֭מְרוּ הֲ י֣
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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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Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God (m) furnish a table in
the wilderness?
(m) Thus when we give place to sin, we are moved to doubt God's power,
unless he is always ready to serve our lu...
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Here we have a full representation of Israel's unworthiness, as the
preceding verses gave us a short relation of God's mercy. Reader, had
you and I been present when, at the lifting up of the rod of M...
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_‘LIMITING THE HOLY ONE’_
‘They said, Can God?’
Psalms 78:19
Can a man limit God? At first sight it seems impossible, and yet it is
done by multitudes every hour of every day. Even Jesus Christ was...
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19._And they spake against God. The prophet had said that they tempted
God in their heart; _(327) and now he adds, that they were not ashamed
openly to utter with their impure and blasphemous tongues,...
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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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YEA, THEY SPOKE AGAINST GOD,.... Not only thought ill of him, and
tempted him in their hearts, but they expressed with their mouths what
was in their hearts, and spoke against him, his power, and his...
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Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the
wilderness?
Ver. 19. _Yea, they stake against God_] Their villanous and foul
thoughts blistered and brake out at their lips.
_ C...
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_And they sinned yet more_ Hebrew, ויוסיפו עוד
לחשׂאלו, _They added yet to sin against him._ All these
miraculous works did not alter their depraved nature; but it broke out
into new and greater provo...
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FURNISH:
_ Heb._ order...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Psalms 78:19 spoke H1696 (H8762) God H430 said H559 (H8804) Can H3201
(H8799) God H410 prepare...
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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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_Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?_
A TABLE IN THE WILDERNESS
Here is--
I. A base ingratitude. He had done so, and they had participated in
the banquet.
II. A miserable scepticism. Can He...
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_And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust._
THE CONDUCT OF GOD TOWARDS THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD’S CONDUCT TO HIM
I. God’s dispensations towards depraved man.
1. Wonderful me...
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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 78:17 In spite of the deeds the people had
seen, YET THEY SINNED STILL MORE AGAINST God.
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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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2 Chronicles 32:19; Exodus 16:8; Job 34:37; Numbers 11:13; Numbers