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Verse Psalms 78:18. _BY ASKING MEAT FOR THEIR LUST._] לנפשם
_lenaphsham_, "for their souls," i.e., _for their lives_; for they
said in their hearts that the _light bread_, the _manna_, was not
suffic...
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AND THEY TEMPTED GOD IN THEIR HEART - Exodus 16:2. The heart was the
source of the evil. They were not satisfied with what he gave them.
They asked for that which would be more agreeable to them, and...
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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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In spite of these miracles of mercy they sinned yet more, and tempted
God in their unbelief, so that while He supplied their wants He was
compelled to punish them for their sin. The order is logical n...
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_by asking_&c. By asking food for their appetite: a different word
from that rendered _lust_in Psalms 78:30. The allusion is not to the
demand for flesh, but to the doubt whether God could provide foo...
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BY ASKING MEAT FOR THEIR LUST— See Hasselquist's Travels, p. 290....
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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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Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land
of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
-The unbelief of the Israelite fathers is detailed as a sad contrast
to God's marvels performed i...
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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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וַ יְנַסּוּ ־אֵ֥ל בִּ לְבָבָ֑ם לִֽ
שְׁאָל
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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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“A TABLE IN THE WILDERNESS”
Psalms 78:13
Throughout this wonderful recital there is a perpetual contrast
between God's unswerving goodness and the incessant backsliding of His
people; and as we read...
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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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And they tempted God in their heart by (l) asking meat for their lust.
(l) Then to require more than is necessary, and to separate God's
power from his will, is to tempt God....
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Here we have a full representation of Israel's unworthiness, as the
preceding verses gave us a short relation of God's mercy. Reader, had
you and I been present when, at the lifting up of the rod of M...
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18._And they tempted God in their heart. _This is the provocation of
which mention is made in the preceding verse. Not that it was unlawful
for them simply to ask food, when constrained to do so by th...
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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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AND THEY TEMPTED GOD IN THEIR HEART,.... Which is desperately wicked,
and from whence all impiety flows; they entertained hard thoughts of
God; they inwardly fretted at their present circumstances, an...
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And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Ver. 18. _And they tempted God in their heart_] In their hearts first,
but afterwards also with their lips. The psalmist here strike...
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_And they sinned yet more_ Hebrew, ויוסיפו עוד
לחשׂאלו, _They added yet to sin against him._ All these
miraculous works did not alter their depraved nature; but it broke out
into new and greater provo...
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The Narrative of God's Deeds...
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And they tempted God in their heart, Matthew 15:19, BY ASKING MEAT FOR
THEIR LUST, when they declared that their soul loathed the very sight
of the manna, Numbers 11:4....
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1-8 These are called dark and deep sayings, because they are
carefully to be looked into. The law of God was given with a
particular charge to teach it diligently to their children, that the
church m...
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TEMPTED; desired a trial and proof of God's power, as the next verse
plainly showeth. See NUMBERS 11:4. FOR THEIR LUST; not for their
necessary subsistence, for which they had manna, but out of an
ino...
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Psalms 78:18 tested H5254 (H8762) God H410 heart H3824 asking H7592
(H8800) food H400 fancy H5315
by
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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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_And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust._
THE CONDUCT OF GOD TOWARDS THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD’S CONDUCT TO HIM
I. God’s dispensations towards depraved man.
1. Wonderful me...
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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 78:17 In spite of the deeds the people had
seen, YET THEY SINNED STILL MORE AGAINST God.
⇐...
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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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1 Corinthians 10:6; Exodus 16:2; Exodus 16:3; James 4:2; James 4:3;...
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Tempted — Desired a proof of God's power. Lust — Not for their
necessary subsistence, but out of an inordinate and luxurious
appetite....