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Verse Psalms 78:63. _THEIR MAIDENS WERE NOT GIVEN TO MARRIAGE._]
הוללו _hullalu_, were not celebrated with marriage songs. It is
considered a calamity in the east if a maiden arrives at the age of
_tw...
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THE FIRE CONSUMED THEIR YOUNG MEN - Fire here may be regarded as an
image of destructive war, as in Numbers 21:28 : “For there is a fire
gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath co...
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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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WERE NOT GIVEN TO MARRIAGE. were not praised: i.e. had no marriage
song....
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Fire devoured their young men;
And their maidens had no marriage song. (R.V.)
The fire of war (Numbers 21:28) consumed the young men, so that the
maidens remained unmarried....
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Once more therefore God punished them for their sins, abandoning them
to their enemies and even suffering the Ark to be captured....
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THEIR MAIDENS WERE NOT GIVEN TO MARRIAGE— _Were not celebrated_ or
_praised._ Mudge. i.e. They lost all their charms and agreeableness;
or, perhaps, were no longer serenaded and praised in poetry and...
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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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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...
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78:63 young (a-5) Or 'chosen,' as ver. 31....
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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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WERE NOT GIVEN. — See margin. The desolation and misery were marked
by the absence of the glad nuptial song....
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בַּחוּרָ֥יו אָֽכְלָה ־אֵ֑שׁ וּ֝
בְתוּלֹתָ֗יו לֹ֣א...
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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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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....
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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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The fire (n) consumed their young men; and their maidens were not (o)
given to marriage.
(n) They were suddenly destroyed, (1 Samuel 4:10).
(o) They had no marriage songs: that is, they were not mar...
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The history of the church is pursued through all these verses. But we
must look farther than the history, and particularly in the close of
the Psalm, which ends with a view of David as the chosen of G...
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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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THE FIRE CONSUMED THEIR YOUNG MEN,.... Not Nadab and Abihu, as some of
the Jewish Rabbins interpret it, of which Jarchi makes mention; but
the young men, the choice, the flower, of the Israelitish arm...
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The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to
marriage.
Ver. 63. _The fire consumed_] The fire of warlike force, which quickly
licketh up all, and layeth waste.
_ And their...
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_He gave his people over unto the sword_ To the sword of his own
justice, and of the enemies' rage, for _he was wroth with his
inheritance;_ and that wrath of his was _the fire which consumed their
yo...
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GIVEN:
_ Heb._ praised...
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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...
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Because the young men who should have married them were slain. Heb.
_were not praised_, to wit, with marriage songs, which was usual at
marriage solemnities among the Jews, as appears from JEREMIAH 7:...
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Psalms 78:63 fire H784 consumed H398 (H8804) men H970 maidens H1330
marriage H1984 (H8795)
fire -...
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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 78:56 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...
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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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Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 32:22; Isaiah 4:1; Jeremiah 16:9;...