Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 78:59
When God heard this, He was wroth, filled with indignation, and greatly abhorred Israel, although not to the point of total rejection,
When God heard this, He was wroth, filled with indignation, and greatly abhorred Israel, although not to the point of total rejection,
WHEN GOD HEARD THIS - literally, “God heard;” that is, he understood this; he was acquainted with it. He heard their prayers addressed to false gods; he heard their praises sung in honor of idols. HE...
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...
WHEN GOD HEARD THIS, HE. There is no "When" in the Hebrew Render: "God heard this, and He was wroth" HEARD. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
Cp. Psalms 78:21. _and greatly abhorred Israel_ Better, and utterly rejected Israel. Israel here can hardly mean Ephraim only, as some commentators hold; for neither sin nor punishment was limited to...
Once more therefore God punished them for their sins, abandoning them to their enemies and even suffering the Ark to be captured....
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:...
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: -Israel's unfaithfulness in the time of the Judges caused God to forsake the tabernacle of Shiloh, and brought down ot...
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...
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
שָׁמַ֣ע אֱ֭לֹהִים וַֽ יִּתְעַבָּ֑ר וַ יִּמְאַ֥ס...
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
GOD RAISES UP HIS SHEPHERD DAVID Psalms 78:59 This paragraph continues the history of the Judges, and tells the story of what befell after the battle in which Eli's sons were slain. See 1 Samuel 4:1....
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,...
God may be said to hear when the cry of a sinful land comes up before him for judgment. So in the case of Cain's murdering his brother: The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground....
59_God heard it, and was wroth. _The prophet again shows that God, when he found that no good resulted from his long-suffering, which the people abused, yea, even treated with mockery, and perverted a...
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...
WHEN GOD HEARD THIS,.... Their building high places, and sacrificing on them, their making and worshipping graven images, and the language which such actions spoke; who also heard what they said to th...
When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: Ver. 59. _When God heard this_] Sin crieth aloud in God's ears, though it be never so closely and cunningly carried. _ And greatly a...
_And dealt unfaithfully like their fathers_ They imitated their forefathers, both in their frequent apostacies from God, and in their falseness to their promises, when they pretended to repent of them...
56-72 After the Israelites were settled in Canaan, the children were like their fathers. God gave them his testimonies, but they turned back. Presumptuous sins render even Israelites hateful to God's...
HEARD, i.e. perceived or understood, as _hearing_ is oft used, as GENESIS 11:7, GENESIS 41:15, &c. It is spoken of God after the manner of men....
Psalms 78:59 God H430 heard H8085 (H8804) furious H5674 (H8691) greatly H3966 abhorred H3988 (H8799) Israel...
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...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:56 These verses describe the time of the judges, leading up to the capture of the ark and the death of Eli and his sons (vv. Psalms 78:60; see...
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...
Genesis 18:20; Genesis 18:21; Lamentations 2:7; Leviticus 20:23;...
Heard — Perceived or understood, it is spoken of God after the manner of men....