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Psalms 78:20

Behold, He smote the rock that the waters gushed out and the streams overflowed, giving them water in rich abundance; can He give bread also? Can He provide flesh for His people? It was a blasphemous murmuring in the face of the great miracles performed for their benefit.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BEHOLD, HE SMOTE THE ROCK ... - See the notes at Psalms 78:15. The smiting of the rock the first time occurred “before” the complaining about the food. The fact that the rock had been smitten could no...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _can he provide_ R.V., Will he provide? The narrative is thrown into a graphic poetical form. Unbelief reaches its climax in the words _for his people_. If, as He says, we are His people, let Him prov...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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:...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֵ֤ן הִכָּה ־צ֨וּר ׀ וַ יָּז֣וּבוּ מַיִם֮ וּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

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

    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,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BEHOLD, HE SMOTE THE ROCK, THAT THE WATERS GUSHED OUT, AND THE STREAMS OVERFLOWED,.... This they allow was done by him, for these are their words continued; suggesting, that though the waters did gush...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? Ver. 20. _Behold, he smote the rock, &c._] And so showe...

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

    _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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE WATERS GUSHED OUT; which, all things consider seems not so wonderful, since fountains of water something break forth unexpectedly from or through rocks. But it is far more difficult to give us bre...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 78:20 struck H5221 (H8689) rock H6697 waters H4325 out H2100 (H8799) streams H5158 overflowed H7857 ...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 78:20 Notice what kind of unbelief is here. It does not deny the past fact. It acknowledges that God has done a miracle of mercy. But in that miracle it finds no such revelation of God Himself...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Can He give bread also?_ can He provide flesh for His people? THE CRY OF UNBELIEF AND PRESUMPTION I. The cry of unbelief. The question presupposes a negative; they practically said, “We do not beli...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:17 In spite of the deeds the people had seen, YET THEY SINNED STILL MORE AGAINST God. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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_.—...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 17:6; Exodus 17:7; Genesis 18:12; Numbers 11:21; Numbers 20:11

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