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Verse Psalms 78:48. _HE GAVE UP THEIR CATTLE_] See on Exodus 9:23....
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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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HOT THUNDERBOLTS: or lightnings (Exodus 9:23)....
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But as God multiplied His mercies, Israel multiplied its acts of
rebellion: and in order to set the heinousness of their ingratitude in
a still stronger light, the Psalmist goes back to recount the mi...
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And he gave over their beasts to the hail,
And their cattle to fiery lightnings.
As the text stands, the reference is to the destruction of the
Egyptian cattle as well as the crops by the lightning...
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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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How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the
desert!
-The Israelites in the time of the Judges tempted God by forgetting
His judgments in Egypt in Israel's behalf, which ar...
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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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HOT THUNDERBOLTS] lightning (Exodus 9:24)....
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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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HAIL. — Some copies read “pestilence,” which from its
association with _resheph,_ as in Habakkuk 3:5, a word there denoting
some contagious malady (comp. Deuteronomy 32:24; see Note Psalms
76:3), is p...
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וַ יַּסְגֵּ֣ר לַ † בָּרָ֣ד בְּעִירָ֑ם
וּ֝...
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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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“SIGNS IN EGYPT”
Psalms 78:38
God takes into account the frailty and infirmity of our natures. _The
Spirit… helpeth our infirmities_, Romans 8:26. In the words of
Hosea, God teaches us “to go;” that...
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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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Here, by way of remembrance, the prophet carries back the subject to
the period of the church's deliverance at the time of the Egyptian
bondage, and gives some of the striking examples of the Lord's
d...
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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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HE GAVE UP THEIR CATTLE ALSO TO THE HAIL,.... For the hail fell upon
man and beast, as well as upon herbs and trees, Exodus 9:22,
AND THEIR FLOCKS TO HOT THUNDERBOLTS: which were killed by them: this...
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He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot
thunderbolts.
Ver. 48. _He gave up their cattle also to the hail_] Moses saith men
also, who were brained and burned by it....
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_How he had wrought his signs in Egypt_ Here the Psalm goes back to
the subject of Israelitish ingratitude, (mentioned Psalms 78:11,) in
order to introduce an account of the miracles wrought in Egypt...
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He gave up their cattle also to the hail, Exodus 9:23, AND THEIR
FLOCKS TO HOT THUNDERBOLTS, for the play of lightning accompanying the
hail was unparalled, Exodus 9:22....
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The Narrative of God's Deeds...
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HE GAVE UP:
_ Heb._ he shut up
HOT THUNDERBOLTS:
Or, lightnings...
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40-55. Let not those that receive mercy from God, be thereby made
bold to sin, for the mercies they receive will hasten its punishment;
yet let not those who are under Divine rebukes for sin, be disc...
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HE GAVE UP, Heb. _he shut up_, as in a prison, that they could not
escape them....
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Psalms 78:48 up H5462 (H8686) cattle H1165 hail H1259 flocks H4735
lightning H7565
gave up - Heb. shut up
hot thunderbolts - or, lightnings,...
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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 78:40 The next section goes back to the exodus,
describing all the plagues God brought against the Egyptian oppressors
(vv. Psalms 78:42). This is followed by a brief summary of
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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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Exodus 9:28...