Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 106:20
Their glory — God, who was indeed their glory. Into — Into the golden image of an ox or calf, which is so far from feeding his people, as the true God did the Israelites, that he must be fed by them.
Their glory — God, who was indeed their glory. Into — Into the golden image of an ox or calf, which is so far from feeding his people, as the true God did the Israelites, that he must be fed by them.
Verse Psalms 106:20. _THUS THEY CHANGED THEIR GLORY_] That is, their God, who was their glory; and they worshipped an ox in his stead. See the use St Paul makes of this, Romans 1:23; see also the not...
THUS THEY CHANGED THEIR GLORY - Their true glory - the proper object of worship - God. Compare the notes at Romans 1:23. They “exchanged” that as an object of worship for the image of an ox. INTO THE...
Psalms 105 AND 106 The Memories of the Past The last two Psalms of this fourth section review the entire history of Israel up to the time of the judges. It is the story of God's faithfulness and merc...
CVI. ISRAEL'S SIN. Psalms 106:1. Introduction. Praise to Yahweh for His power and greatness. The writer's desire to share in Israel's joy. PSALMS 106:3. HE THAT DOETH: read they that do. Psalms 106...
THEIR GLORY. The primitive text was "My glory", but this was changed by the _Sopherim_ to "their" out of. mistaken reverence. See App-33. GLORY. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6...
THEY CHANGED THEIR GLORY— That is, their God, who was their glory; as Jeremiah 2:11. Compare Romans 1:23. This passage fully shews that the golden calf was intended as a symbolic representation of Jeh...
PSALMS 106 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Humbled Israel Confessing Her Sins as a Nation. ANALYSIS Enclosed within an Introduction of Praise and Prayer, Psalms 106:1-5, and a Conclusion of Prayer and Doxology,...
They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: -Three transgressions of Israel in the wilderness are detailed, rising in gradation of moral guilt, without respect to time: (1) Their...
As Psalms 105 gives thanks for God's goodness, so Psalms 106 confesses Israel's sin and acknowledges God's mercy, both being illustrated in an historical retrospect from the deliverance from Egypt dow...
Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE *LORD IS GOOD! PSALMS 106 Jesus said, "Father, *forgive them. Because they do not know what they are doing". ...
(13-33) These twenty verses cover the desert wanderings, beginning with _the_ discontented spirit mentioned in Exodus 15:23....
THEIR GLORY — _i.e.,_ Jehovah, as shown by Jeremiah 2:11. SIMILITUDE. — This is also a Deuteronomic word (Deuteronomy 4:16; Deuteronomy 4:18), meaning originally “structure,” from a root meaning “to b...
וַ יָּמִ֥ירוּ אֶת ־כְּבֹודָ֑ם בְּ תַבְנִ֥ית ש
Psalms 106:1 THE history of God's past is a record of continuous mercies, the history of man's, one of as continuous sin. The memory of the former quickened the psalmist into his sunny song of thankfu...
JUDGMENT RESTRAINED BY INTERCESSION Psalms 106:16 The strife between the ungodly and the servants of God has characterized all the centuries. These verses record some of its phases. Moses is called G...
The previous psalm called the people to talk of the “marvellous works” of Jehovah. This one calls to praise, and the reason is that “His mercy endureth for ever.” This fact is then illustrated by a de...
Thus they changed their (k) glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. (k) He shows that all idolaters renounce God to be their glory when instead of him, they worship any creature much mo...
_Word. Jesus Christ, according to the prophetical sense, adopted by the Fathers, (St. Athanasius, or. 3., &c.) though it literally implies, that at God's command the sick were healed, Matthew viii. 7....
I include all these verses within one reading, though the Reader will recollect that they refer to several very interesting transactions at different periods in the church's history. But it would swel...
Psalms 106. "Hallelujah. Give thanks to Jehovah, for it is good (or He is good). His mercy endureth for ever." This last we have often seenthe expression of this unfailing faithful mercy of Jehovah, w...
THUS THEY CHANGED THEIR GLORY,.... God, who is glorious in all the perfections of his nature, and is glory itself, and was the glory of these people; it was their greatest honour that they had knowled...
Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. Ver. 20. _Thus they changed their glory_] _i.e._ Their God, Romans 1:23, the Creator for a contemptible creature. _ Of an...
_They made a calf in Horeb_ When they were but very lately brought out of Egypt, by such wonderful power and goodness of God, and had seen the dreadful plagues of God upon the Egyptian idolaters, and...
GOD'S BLESSINGS IN SPITE OF ISRAEL'S UNFAITHFULNESS. This psalm, whose author is not known, gives a detailed confession of the sins of Israel, as contrasted with the wonders of God's mercy, the concl...
Thus they changed their glory, Jehovah, the true God Himself, as He had manifested and proved Himself before the people, INTO THE SIMILITUDE OF AN OX THAT EATETH GRASS....
13-33 Those that will not wait for God's counsel, shall justly be given up to their own hearts' lusts, to walk in their own counsels. An undue desire, even for lawful things, becomes sinful. God show...
CHANGED, as far as in them lay, and in respect of their worship. THEIR GLORY; their God, who was indeed their glory; for they had this just occasion of triumphing and glorying over all the nations of...
Psalms 106:20 changed H4171 (H8686) glory H3519 image H8403 ox H7794 eats H398 (H8802) grass H6212...
Psalms 106:1. _Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever._ In this Psalm we have the history of God's people turned to practical account. I have...
In this Psalm we have the story of God's ancient covenant people, and as we read it, we may read our own history in it if we also are his people. It is a looking-glass, in which the beholder may see h...
This Psalm relates the story of God's mercy to Israel, of the people's provocation of Jehovah, and of his great patience with them. It commences with an exhortation to praise the Lord. Psalms 106:1....
CONTENTS: The badness of Israel made heinous by the great goodness of God. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist, Moses, Aaron, Dathan, Abiram, Phinehas. CONCLUSION: Man's perverseness arises continually from hi...
This also is a Psalm of David, and is cited in 1 Chronicles 16., although the first and the two last verses only are there given. The subject is similar to that of the preseding psalm; and it was prob...
_They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image._ THE IDOLATRY OF MAN AND THE INDIGNATION OF HEAVEN I. The idolatry of man (verses 19, 20). 1. The strength of the religious instinct. Ma...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:1. This historical psalm (see notes on Psalms 78 and 105) retells a series of events from Israel’s history to illustrate God’s steadfas
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:6 This is a list of incidents that begins at the shore of the Red Sea (vv. Psalms 106:7) and ends during the time of the judges (vv....
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:19 The psalm moves on to the CALF IN HOREB, the “golden calf” (Exodus 32:1). They worshiped this idol because they were unfaithful ...
INTRODUCTION “This it the first of a series of Hallelujah Psalms: Psalms of which the word Hallelujah is, as it were, the inscription (106, 111–113, 117, 135, 146–150.). As in the last Psalm, so here...
EXPOSITION This is the first of the strictly "Hallelujah psalms"—_i.e._ of the psalms beginning with the phrase "hallelujah"—which are Psalms 106:1, Psalms 111:1, Psalms 112:1,...
Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? Who can show forth all his praise? Blessed are they that ke...
Exodus 20:4; Exodus 20:5; Isaiah 40:18; Jeremiah 2:11; Psalms 89:17;...