Psalms 78:1
My law — The doctrine which I am about to deliver.... [ Continue Reading ]
My law — The doctrine which I am about to deliver.... [ Continue Reading ]
Parable — Weighty sentences. Dark sayings — Not that the words are hard to be understood, but the things, God's transcendent goodness, their unparallel'd ingratitude; and their stupid ignorance and insensibleness, under such excellent teachings of God's word and works, are prodigious and hard to be... [ Continue Reading ]
Established — This is justly put in first place, as the chief of all his mercies. A testimony — His law, called a testimony, because it is a witness between God and men, declaring the duties which God expects from man, and the blessings which man may expect from God.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ephraim — That Ephraim is here put for all Israel seems evident from the following verses, wherein the sins, upon which this overthrow is charged, are manifestly the sins of all the children of Israel, and they who are here called Ephraim are called Jacob and Israel, Psalms 78:21, and this passage m... [ Continue Reading ]
Field — In the territory. Zoan — An ancient and eminent city of Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wilderness — In Rephidim, and again in Kadesh.... [ Continue Reading ]
Streams — Which miraculously followed them in all their travels, even to the borders of Canaan.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wilderness — Where they had such singular obligations to obedience. This was a great aggravation of their sins.... [ Continue Reading ]
Tempted — Desired a proof of God's power. Lust — Not for their necessary subsistence, but out of an inordinate and luxurious appetite.... [ Continue Reading ]
Trusted not — That he both could, and would save them from the famine which they feared.... [ Continue Reading ]
Heaven — Which he compares to a store — house, whereof God shuts or opens the doors, as he sees fit.... [ Continue Reading ]
Angels food — Manna, so called, because it was made by the ministry of angels.... [ Continue Reading ]
South wind — First an eastern, and afterwards a southern wind.... [ Continue Reading ]
Fowl — But God took away from them the use of their wings, and made them to fall into the hands of the Israelites.... [ Continue Reading ]
Mightiest — The most healthy and strong, who probably were most desirous of this food, and fed most eagerly upon it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Vanity — In tedious and fruitless marches hither and thither. Trouble — In manifold diseases, dangers, and perplexities.... [ Continue Reading ]
Returned — From their idols. Enquired — Speedily sought to God for ease and safety.... [ Continue Reading ]
Redeemer — That God alone had preserved them in all their former exigencies, and that he only could help them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Lied — They made but false protestations of their sincere resolutions of future obedience.... [ Continue Reading ]
Hand — The glorious works of his hand. Enemy — That remarkable day, in which God delivered them from their greatest enemy, Pharaoh.... [ Continue Reading ]
Flies — These flies were doubtless extraordinary in their nature, and hurtful qualities. And the like is to be thought concerning the frogs.... [ Continue Reading ]
Labour — The herbs which were come up by their care and labour.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sycamore — trees — Under these and the vines, all other trees are comprehended. This hail and frost destroyed the fruit of the trees, and sometimes the trees themselves.... [ Continue Reading ]
Evil angels — Whom God employed in producing these plagues.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ham — Of the Egyptians, the posterity of Ham, the cursed children of a cursed parent.... [ Continue Reading ]
Holy place — The land of Canaan, separated by God from all other lands. Mountain — The mountainous country of Canaan; the word mountain is often used in scripture for a mountainous country.... [ Continue Reading ]
Deceitful bow — Which either breaks when it is drawn, or shoots awry, and frustrates the archer's expectation.... [ Continue Reading ]
Heard — Perceived or understood, it is spoken of God after the manner of men.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shiloh — Which was placed in Shiloh. Among men — Whereby he insinuates both God's wonderful condescension, and their stupendous folly in despising so glorious a privilege.... [ Continue Reading ]
His strength — The ark, called God's strength, 1 Chronicles 16:11, because it was the sign and pledge of his strength put forth on his people's behalf. Glory — So the ark is called, as being the monument and seat of God's glorious presence. Enemies — The Philistines.... [ Continue Reading ]
Priests — Hophni and Phinehas. No lamentation — No funeral solemnities; either because they were prevented by their own death, as the wife of Phinehas was, or disturbed by the invasion of the enemy.... [ Continue Reading ]
Smote — Them with the piles. Reproach — He caused them to perpetuate their own reproach by sending back the ark of God with their golden emrods, the lasting monuments of their shame.... [ Continue Reading ]
Refused — He would not have his ark to abide any longer in the tabernacle of Shiloh, which was in the tribe of Joseph or Ephraim.... [ Continue Reading ]
Chose — For the seat of the ark and of God's worship.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sanctuary — The temple of Solomon. Palaces — Magnificent and gloriously. Established — Not now to be moved from place to place, as the tabernacle was, but as a fixed place for the ark's perpetual residence.... [ Continue Reading ]