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Verse Psalms 78:49. _BY SENDING EVIL ANGELS_] This is the first
mention we have of _evil angels_. There is no mention of them in the
account we have of the plagues of Egypt in the Book of Exodus, and...
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HE CAST UPON THEM THE FIERCENESS OF HIS ANGER ... - This verse is
designed to describe the last, and the most dreadful of the plagues
that came upon the Egyptians, the slaying of their first-born; and...
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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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SENDING. letting loose.
EVIL ANGELS. In distinction from "demons". Compare 1 Timothy 4:1,
where both are mentioned. Compare Exodus 12:23; 2 Samuel 24:16....
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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...
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_He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger_ Lit., _he sent_, as in
Psalms 78:45. The same phrase is found in Job 20:23.
by _sending evil angels_among them] R.V., a band of angels of evil:
lit. _a...
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The culmination of the plagues in the death of the firstborn....
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BY SENDING EVIL ANGELS AMONG THEM— I join the latter end of this
verse to the beginning of the next (says Mudge) in one sentence, which
is a very noble one. _He nicely weighed or marked out a mission...
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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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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...
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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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BY SENDING EVIL ANGELS _among them_] RV 'aband of evil angels,' the
disasters being personified as messengers of God....
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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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EVIL ANGELS. — So LXX. and Vulg., but in the Hebrew _angels_ (or
_messengers_)_ of ills_ (so Symmachus), with evident reference to the
destruction of the firstborn....
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יְשַׁלַּח ־בָּ֨ם ׀ חֲרֹ֬ון אַפֹּ֗ו
עֶבְרָ֣ה וָ...
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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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SAFELY LED, YET BENT ON WANDERING
Psalms 78:49
This section of the psalm deals largely with the books of Joshua and
Judges. The failures that had characterized the Wilderness crossed the
Jordan with...
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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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He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation,
and trouble, by sending (d) evil angels [among them].
(d) So called either for the effect, that is, of punishing the wicked:
or...
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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...
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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 CAST UPON THEM THE FIERCENESS OF HIS ANGER,.... This with the
following words,
WRATH, AND INDIGNATION, AND TROUBLE, are thought by some to intend the
other plagues, which are not particularly ment...
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He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation,
and trouble, by sending evil angels [among them].
Ver. 49. _By sending evil angels among them_] _i.e._ Some messengers
of his wr...
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_He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger_ Anger in the highest
degree, _wrath and indignation_, the cause, _and trouble_,
(tribulation and anguish, Romans 2:8,) the effect. These he _cast upon
t...
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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...
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INDIGNATION AND TROUBLE; other most grievous plagues, which were mixed
with and were the effects of his anger and wrath; whereby their
miseries were greatly aggravated, and distinguished from the
affl...
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Psalms 78:49 cast H7971 (H8762) fierceness H2740 anger H639 Wrath
H5678 indignation H2195 trouble H6869 sending H4917
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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 78:40 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
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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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1 Kings 22:21; 1 Kings 22:22; Isaiah 42:25; Job 1:12; Job 2:6;...
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Evil angels — Whom God employed in producing these plagues....