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Verse Psalms 78:4. _WE WILL NOT HIDE_ THEM] In those ancient times
there was very _little reading_, because _books_ were exceedingly
scarce; _tradition_ was therefore the only, or nearly the only, me...
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WE WILL NOT HIDE THEM FROM THEIR CHILDREN - From their descendants,
however remote. We of this generation will be faithful in handing down
these truths to future times. We stand between past generatio...
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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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CHILDREN. sons.
SHEWING. Recounting.
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.
WONDERFUL WORKS. wonders. Compare Psalms 77:11; Psalms 77:14....
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The Psalmist's solemn invitation to his countrymen to listen to his
teaching. He proposes to set forth the lessons to be drawn from
Israel's past history, in obedience to God's command to hand on the...
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It is best to place a full stop at the end of Psalms 78:2, and connect
Psalms 78:3 thus:
The things which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told to us,
We will not hide from their sons,...
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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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Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
WHICH WE HAVE HEARD ... WE WILL NOT HIDE. See introductory remarks.
Translate, 'What we have heard, etc., we will not hide (omit them)
f...
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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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לֹ֤א נְכַחֵ֨ד ׀ מִ בְּנֵיהֶ֗ם לְ דֹ֥ור
אַחֲרֹ
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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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LEARNING FROM THE FATHERS
Psalms 78:1
This psalm is said to have arisen, from a strong controversy between
Judah and Ephraim as to the location of God's sanctuary, and its final
transfer within the l...
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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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_Us. The Idumeans, &c., are hence blamed by the prophets, Ezechiel
xxv. 12., and Abdias 10. (Calmet) --- Christ and his disciples have
been treated with scorn, (Berthier) being styled Galileans, Papis...
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How lovely is it to behold, even from the days of the patriarchs, the
care and attention with which the fathers handed down the testimony
they had received concerning the promised seed. Hence we find...
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4._We will not conceal them from their children in the generation to
come. _Some take the verb נכחד, _nechached, _in the _nephil
_conjugation, and translate it, _they are not concealed or hidden.
_But...
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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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WE WILL NOT HIDE THEM FROM THEIR CHILDREN,.... The children of the
Jewish fathers, but faithfully publish and declare them, as Christ and
his apostles did; or the children of God and Christ, their spi...
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_Showing the praises of the Lord_ His glorious and praiseworthy
actions, as the following words explain it. _For he established a
testimony in Jacob_ That is, his law, as it is called in the next
clau...
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A REVIEW OF ISRAEL'S HISTORY AS A SOURCE OF CONSOLATION.
Maschil of Asaph, a didactic poem, intended to instruct the children
of Israel in the wonderful ways of the Lord and to warn them against
apos...
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We will not hide them from their children, by refusing to hand them
down by word of mouth and by written record, SHOWING TO THE GENERATION
TO COME, the children which are now growing up, THE PRAISES O...
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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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THE PRAISES, i.e. his glorious and praiseworthy actions, as the
following words explain it....
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Psalms 78:4 hide H3582 (H8762) children H1121 Telling H5608 (H8764)
generation H1755 come H314 praises H8416 LORD...
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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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_We will not hide them from their children._
CHILDREN
I. The interesting objects of our solicitude mentioned. Consider--
1. The love which welcomes them.
2. The evils which surround them.
3. The...
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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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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 11:19; Deuteronomy 4:9; Deuteronomy 6:7; Isaiah 63:7;...