From following the ewes with their young ones he brought him,
To be shepherd of Jacob his people &c.
This natural metaphor for the ruler's care of his people was especially appropriate in the case of David, who was taken from being the shepherd of Jesse's flock to be the shepherd of Jehovah's flock. Cp. 2 Samuel 5:2.
Verse Psalms 78:71. _FROM FOLLOWING THE EWES_] Instances of this kind are not unfrequent in the ancient Greek and Roman history. _Croesus_ said that _Gyges_, who was the first of his race, was a _slav...
FROM FOLLOWING THE EWES GREAT WITH YOUNQ - Margin, as in Hebrew, From after. The meaning is, that he followed after them; that is, he attended them, or watched over them as a shepherd. The single word...
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 ...
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...
TO FEED. To shepherd. TO FEED JACOB. Compare 2 Samuel 7:7; 2 Samuel 7:8. HIS PEOPLE. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "His servant". ISRAEL. Note the two names: Jacob, the natural see...
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:...
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. -Now Yahweh awakes as one out of sleep, and destroys His people's enemies, and restores the ark; but...
GREAT WITH YOUNG] RV 'that give suck,' as in Isaiah 40:11....
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...
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
EWES GREAT WITH YOUNG — So also in Isaiah 40:11; but properly, _ewes with lambs._ Literally, _giving suck._...
מֵ אַחַ֥ר עָלֹ֗ות הֱ֫בִיאֹ֥ו לִ֭ רְעֹות בְּ
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
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....
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,...
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...
71._He took him from following the suckling ewes, etc. _The grace of God is farther commended from the circumstance, that David, who was a keeper of sheep, was made the shepherd of the chosen people a...
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...
FROM FOLLOWING THE EWES GREAT WITH YOUNG,.... Or, "from after" them a; it was usual with the shepherd to put them before him, and to follow them, and gently drive them, which is expressive of his care...
From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. Ver. 71. _From following the ewes_] So Saul from seeking asses, Agathocles from making po...
_He chose David also his servant_ Out of all the thousands of Israel, and put the sceptre into his hand, out of whose loins Christ was to come, and who was to be a type of him. _And took him from the...
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
from following the ewes great with young He brought him to feed Jacob, His people, and Israel, His inheritance, the children of Israel being a type of the spiritual Israel, and David a type of the gre...
FROM FOLLOWING: _ Heb._ from after...
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...
FOLLOWING THE EWES GREAT WITH YOUNG; by which employment he was inured to that care, and diligence, and self-denial which is necessary in a king or governor; and instructed to rule his people with all...
Psalms 78:71 following H310 young H5763 (H8802) brought H935 (H8689) shepherd H7462 (H8800) Jacob H3290 people...
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...
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...
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...
_He chose David also His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds._ DAVID, THE SHEPHERD, CALLED TO BE KING A keeper of sheep, suddenly becoming conscious that he was chosen for a great yet terrible...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:65 God graciously answered Israel’s recurring pattern of sin by raising up David to be their king. THE LORD AWOKE AS FROM SLEEP. This is a bold image, conveying what the believ...
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_.—...
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...
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...
1 Chronicles 11:2; 1 Peter 5:2; 1 Samuel 2:7; 1 Samuel 2:8; 2 Samuel 5:2