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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
* 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)...