Yea, they turned back and tempted God, testing out His kindness in a total of ten temptations, Numbers 14:22, and limited the Holy One of Israel, worrying, troubling, vexing Him with their rebellious conduct.
Verse Psalms 78:41. _LIMITED THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL._] The _Chaldee_ translates, "And the Holy One of Israel they signed with a sign." The Hebrew word התוו _hithvu_ is supposed to come from the root...
YEA, THEY TURNED BACK, AND TEMPTED GOD - They turned away from his service; they were disposed to return to Egypt, and to place themselves in the condition in which they were before they were delivere...
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 ...
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...
TURNED BACK: i.e. again and again. LIMITED. Hebrew. _tavah_, to set. mark (Ezekiel 9:4), the only other occurrence of the _Hiphil_. hence, to set. limit. THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. This title occurs onl...
An emphatic repetition of Psalms 78:17. _provoke him_ Rather, as in Psalms 78:8_; Psalms 78:17; Psalms 78:56_, rebel against him. Both words
But as God multiplied His mercies, Israel multiplied its acts of rebellion: and in order to set the heinousness of their ingratitude in a still stronger light, the Psalmist goes back to recount the mi...
And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel. _limited_(A.V.) would mean "entertained mean and circumscribed notions of His power and goodness and faithfulness" (Kay),...
YEA, THEY TURNED BACK, &C.— _And repeatedly put God to the proof, and set limits to the Holy One of Israel._ Mudge....
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:...
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! -The Israelites in the time of the Judges tempted God by forgetting His judgments in Egypt in Israel's behalf, which ar...
78:41 grieved (d-9) Or 'limited.'...
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...
LIMITED] RV 'provoked.' 43-51. The plagues in Egypt....
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
LIMITED. — A verb used in Ezekiel 9:4 for putting a mark on the forehead, which has been very variously explained. Some render _branded_ or _cast a stigma on_ — _i.e.,_ brought discredit on the Divine...
וַ יָּשׁ֣וּבוּ וַ יְנַסּ֣וּ אֵ֑ל וּ קְדֹ֖ושׁ
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
“SIGNS IN EGYPT” Psalms 78:38 God takes into account the frailty and infirmity of our natures. _The Spirit… helpeth our infirmities_, Romans 8:26. In the words of Hosea, God teaches us “to go;” that...
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,...
Yea, they (y) turned back and tempted God, and (z) limited the Holy One of Israel. (y) That is, they often tempted him. (z) As they all do who measure the power of God by their capacity....
Here, by way of remembrance, the prophet carries back the subject to the period of the church's deliverance at the time of the Egyptian bondage, and gives some of the striking examples of the Lord's d...
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...
YEA, THEY TURNED BACK, AND TEMPTED GOD,.... They talked of going back to Egypt, and of choosing a captain to lead them back thither, Numbers 14:3, and they turned back from the Lord, and from his good...
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. Ver. 41. _Yea, they turned back and tempted God_] They did it afresh, and after some resolutions and short winded wishes of...
_And limited the Holy One of Israel_ Prescribing to him what proofs he should give of his power and presence with them, and what methods he should take in leading them and providing for them; directin...
40-55. Let not those that receive mercy from God, be thereby made bold to sin, for the mercies they receive will hasten its punishment; yet let not those who are under Divine rebukes for sin, be disc...
They limited either, 1. God's power, as above, PSALMS 78:19,20. Or, 2. God's will, directing and prescribing to him what to do, and when, and in what manner, and murmuring at him if he did not alway...
Psalms 78:41 again H7725 (H8799) tempted H5254 (H8762) God H410 limited H8428 (H8689) One H6918 Israel...
Psalms 78:41 I. Ever since the fall of man, there has been a natural tendency in the human heart to "limit the Holy One of Israel." This is the crime of idolatry and of heathenism. This was the contes...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel _ LIMITING GOD I. We limit the Holy One of Israel by dictating to him. Shall mortal dare to dictate to his Creator? Shall i...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:40 The next section goes back to the exodus, describing all the plagues God brought against the Egyptian oppressors (vv. Psalms 78:42). This is followed by a brief summary of
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_.—...
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...
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...
2 Peter 2:21; 2 Peter 2:22; Acts 7:39; Deuteronomy 6:16; Hebrews 3:8;...