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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 106 - Introduction

* The happiness of God's people. (1-5) Israel's sins. (6-12) Their provocations. (13-33) Their rebellions in Canaan. (34-46) Prayer for more complete deliverance. (47,48)

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See also Psalms 106 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The author of this psalm is unknown, and the occasion on which it was composed cannot now be ascertained. It belongs to the same “class” as Psalms 78; Psalms 105; as referring to the ancient history o...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This Psalm, as has already been remarked, is a companion to the preceding one. It may well have been composed by the same poet: at any rate it belongs to the same period. It is in the main a confessio...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 seat (a-27) Or 'in the company.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CVI. The motive of this historical psalm differs from that of the last as it does from that of Psalms 78. Its survey of the past is neither hymnic nor didactic, but penitential. Though the first of th...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 106 This psalm is without the name of its author, as the Syriac interpreter observes. Aben Ezra, on Psalms 106:47, says, that one of the wise men of Egypt (perhaps Maimonides) w...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 2962. B.C. 1042._ The foregoing Psalm was a history of God's goodness to Israel: this is a history of their provocations and rebellions against him. Poole, Mudge, and some other commentators, i...

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