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SO THEY DID EAT, AND WERE WELL FILLED - The word rendered “well”
here is intensive. It means that they were abundantly satisfied; that
there was no lack; that they had the most ample supply.
FOR HE G...
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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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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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_for he gave them_&c. For he brought them that for which they lusted.
Cp. Psalms 106:14; Numbers 11:4; Numbers 11:34....
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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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THEIR OWN DESIRE] RV 'that they lusted after.'
36, 37. There was no real change of heart. HIS COVENANT] see Exodus
24:7....
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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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DESIRE. — See Numbers 11:34, margin....
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וַ יֹּאכְל֣וּ וַ יִּשְׂבְּע֣וּ מְאֹ֑ד
וְ֝ תַֽ
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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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SO THEY DID EAT, AND WERE WELL FILLED,..... Or "exceedingly filled" m,
or too much, as some versions render it; they eat to excess, not
merely to satisfy nature, but to gratify their sensual appetite:...
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So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own
desire;
Ver. 29. _So they did eat, and were well filled_] But better they had
fasted. Many eat that on earth which they must digest i...
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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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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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What they desired both for quality and quantity....
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Psalms 78:29 ate H398 (H8799) well H3966 filled H7646 (H8799) gave
H935 (H8686) desire H8378
for he
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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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Numbers 11:20; Psalms 106:15...