Psalms 106:1
PRAISE YE THE LORD. Hebrew. Hallelu-jah. THE LORD. Hebrew Jah. App-4. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace.... [ Continue Reading ]
PRAISE YE THE LORD. Hebrew. Hallelu-jah. THE LORD. Hebrew Jah. App-4. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLESSED. Oh how happy! Figure of speech _Beatitude._ App-63. HE THAT DOETH. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "they that do".... [ Continue Reading ]
ME. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "us".... [ Continue Reading ]
CHOSEN... NATION... INHERITANCE. Note the three names of Jehovah's People.... [ Continue Reading ]
SINNED. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44. Note the three iniquity. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44. classes of ill-doing. WE HAVE. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "and have". WICKEDLY. lawlessly. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
EGYPT. It took forty hours to take Israel out of Egypt, but forty years to take Egypt out of Israel. PROVOKED HIM. rebelled. Hebrew. _marah_. Same word as in verses: Psalms 106:33; Psalms 106:43. not the same as in Psalms 106:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEVERTHELESS. Compare Structure, Psalms 106:44. Figure of speech _Palinodia._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
REDEEMED, as. kinsman. Hebrew. _ga'al._ See notes on Exodus 6:6; Exodus 13:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
ENEMIES. adversaries.... [ Continue Reading ]
SOON FORGAT. Characteristic of human nature.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew El. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh_. App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAINT. separated one. See note on Exodus 3:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
DATHAN... ABIRAM. Korah not mentioned; not because of being an "older tradition" (as alleged), butbecause the "sons of Korah" were spared. See Psalms 42, Title, and compare Numbers 16:1 and Psalms 26:11. COVERED. overwhelmed.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOREB. So called here; not because the word of. later writer, but because "Horeb" was the higher name ("the mount of God", Exodus 3:1; 1 Kings 19:8), in order to show the heinousness of the sin.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR GLORY. The primitive text was "My glory", but this was changed by the _Sopherim_ to "their" out of. mistaken reverence. See App-33. GLORY. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for God Himself. Who was and should have been He Whom they gloried in.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAND OF HAM. Compare Psalms 78:51; Psalms 105:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
MOSES. Compare Exodus 32:10. HIS CHOSEN. Not theirs.... [ Continue Reading ]
MURMURED. Occurs only here, Deuteronomy 1:27, and Isaiah 29:24. AND. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read this word in the text; others read "they".... [ Continue Reading ]
OVERTHROW. Septuagint reads "disperse".... [ Continue Reading ]
BAAL-PEOR. Compare Numbers 25:2; Numbers 25:3. THE DEAD. This pertains to necromancy, Compare Deuteronomy 18:11.Isaiah 8:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
PROVOKED. grieved, or irritated. Hebrew. _ka'as._ Not the same word as in verses: Psalms 106:7; Psalms 106:33; Psalms 106:43. HIM. This word is read in text in some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate INVENTIONS. doings. See Psalms 106:39 also.... [ Continue Reading ]
PHINEHAS. Compare Numbers 25:7; Numbers 25:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
COUNTED. Compare Numbers 25:12; Numbers 25:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANGERED. caused indignation. Occurs only here in the Psalms. STRIFE. Hebrew. _Meribah._ Numbers 20:2. WENT ILL. fared ill.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS: i.e. Moses. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach_. App-9. SPAKE UNADVISEDLY.. very rare Hebrew word. Occurs only here in the Psalms.... [ Continue Reading ]
DID NOT DESTROY. Compare Judges 1:21, &c. NATIONS. peoples: i.e. the Canaanite nations. See App-23 and App-25. COMMANDED. Compare Exodus 23:32; Exodus 23:33: and often repeated. For the reason, see App-23 and App-25.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEATHEN. nations: i.e. the nations of Canaan. Compare Psalms 106:38. See App-23 and App-25.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH WERE. And they became. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "And it became".... [ Continue Reading ]
DEVILS. demons. Compare Deuteronomy 32:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
POLLUTED. The strongest word that could be used. Compare Numbers 35:33.Isaiah 24:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
MANY TIMES. Compare Judges 2:16; Nehemiah 9:27, &c. DELIVER. rescue. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'av_. _n_. App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
REMEMBERED. REPENTED. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
PITIED. Compare 2 Kings 25:27. Daniel, Nehemiah, Esther, Ezra; showing that the prayer of Solomon was answered (1 Kings 8:50). OF. Before: i.e. By.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. GATHER US. Not necessary to suppose. late date for the Psalm. The Spirit of God spake by the prophets. David was. prophet (Acts 2:30; Acts 2:31). Moreover, the Dispersion was well known, being foretold in Deuteronomy 28:64. We might as well reason away 1 Kings 8:46, fo... [ Continue Reading ]
BLESSED. Figure of speech _Benedictio._ This Doxology closes this fourth book. Compare the closing Psalms of the other books. THE LORD. Hebrew Jah. See App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]