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HE RAINED FLESH ALSO UPON THEM AS DUST - The flesh of quails, Numbers
11:31. The word “rained” means that they seemed to come upon them
like a copious shower. The word dust denotes their great abundan...
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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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RAINED. As in Psalms 78:24.
AS THE SAND. Figure of speech _Paroemia_. App-6....
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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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And he rained flesh upon them as the dust,
And winged fowl as the sand of the seas.
The sending of quails is connected, as in Exodus 16, with the sending
of the manna; but the language of the Psalm...
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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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No doubt there is poetical hyperbole here, but for the enormous
numbers of quails that are now caught, see the article quoted above....
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וַ יַּמְטֵ֬ר עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם כֶּ † עָפָ֣ר
שְׁאֵ֑ר...
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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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BLESSED YET UNGRATEFUL
Psalms 78:25
God our Father is prepared to do “exceeding abundantly” for His
children; but too often we become so engrossed with His gifts as to
forget and neglect the Giver. W...
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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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What gracious instructions are read to us in these verses! See, my
soul, how unsuitable and self-destroying would prove thy desires in
numberless instances, if the Lord, in anger, granted them to thy...
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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 RAINED FLESH ALSO UPON THEM AS DUST,.... By "flesh" is meant fowl,
as the following clause shows; for there is flesh of birds, as well as
of other creatures, see 1 Corinthians 15:39 and the quails...
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He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as
the sand of the sea:
Ver. 27. _He rained flesh also upon them as dust_] _Dapibus illos
compluit._ This he had done once before for...
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_He caused an east wind to blow_, &c. First an eastern, and afterward
a southern wind. _He rained flesh, &c., and feathered fowls like as
the sand_ Hebrew, עו Š כנ Š, _gnoph chanap, fowl of wing_, or...
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FEATHERED FOELS:
_ Heb._ fowl of wing...
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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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FEATHERED FOWLS, Heb. _winged fowl_; which is noted to show that it
was a supernatural work, whereby God took away from them the use of
their wings, and made them to fall into the hands of the Israeli...
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Psalms 78:27 rained H4305 (H8686) meat H7607 dust H6083 Feathered
H3671 fowl H5775 sand H2344 seas H3220...
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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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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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Exodus 16:12; Exodus 16:13; Numbers 11:18; Numbers 11:19; Numbers 11:3
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Fowl — But God took away from them the use of their wings, and made
them to fall into the hands of the Israelites....