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WHEN GOD HEARD THIS - literally, “God heard;” that is, he
understood this; he was acquainted with it. He heard their prayers
addressed to false gods; he heard their praises sung in honor of
idols.
HE...
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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 ...
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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...
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WHEN GOD HEARD THIS, HE. There is no "When" in the Hebrew Render: "God
heard this, and He was wroth"
HEARD. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
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Cp. Psalms 78:21. _and greatly abhorred Israel_ Better, and utterly
rejected Israel. Israel here can hardly mean Ephraim only, as some
commentators hold; for neither sin nor punishment was limited to...
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Once more therefore God punished them for their sins, abandoning them
to their enemies and even suffering the Ark to be captured....
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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:...
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Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his
testimonies:
-Israel's unfaithfulness in the time of the Judges caused God to
forsake the tabernacle of Shiloh, and brought down ot...
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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...
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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
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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
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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....
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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,...
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God may be said to hear when the cry of a sinful land comes up before
him for judgment. So in the case of Cain's murdering his brother: The
voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground....
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59_God heard it, and was wroth. _The prophet again shows that God,
when he found that no good resulted from his long-suffering, which the
people abused, yea, even treated with mockery, and perverted a...
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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...
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WHEN GOD HEARD THIS,.... Their building high places, and sacrificing
on them, their making and worshipping graven images, and the language
which such actions spoke; who also heard what they said to th...
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When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Ver. 59. _When God heard this_] Sin crieth aloud in God's ears, though
it be never so closely and cunningly carried.
_ And greatly a...
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_And dealt unfaithfully like their fathers_ They imitated their
forefathers, both in their frequent apostacies from God, and in their
falseness to their promises, when they pretended to repent of them...
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The Narrative of God's Deeds...
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When God heard this, He was wroth, filled with indignation, AND
GREATLY ABHORRED ISRAEL, although not to the point of total rejection,...
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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...
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HEARD, i.e. perceived or understood, as _hearing_ is oft used, as
GENESIS 11:7, GENESIS 41:15, &c. It is spoken of God after the manner
of men....
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Psalms 78:59 God H430 heard H8085 (H8804) furious H5674 (H8691)
greatly H3966 abhorred H3988 (H8799) Israel...
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The story of how the children of Israel behaved themselves towards
their gracious God.
Psalms 78:10. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk
in his law; and forgat his works, and his w...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare
Psalms 105:1; P
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:56 These verses describe the time of the
judges, leading up to the capture of the ark and the death of Eli and
his sons (vv. Psalms 78:60; see...
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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_.—...
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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...
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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...
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Genesis 18:20; Genesis 18:21; Lamentations 2:7; Leviticus 20:23;...
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Heard — Perceived or understood, it is spoken of God after the
manner of men....