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Verse Psalms 78:54. _THE BORDER OF HIS SANCTUARY_] קדשו _kodsho_,
"of his holy place," that is, the _land of Canaan_, called afterwards
_the_ _mountain_ which _his right hand had purchased_; because i...
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AND HE BROUGHT THEM TO THE BORDER OF HIS SANCTUARY - The Septuagint
and the Latin Vulgate render this, “to the mountain of his
holiness”; that is, his holy mountain. But the reference is rather
to the...
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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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HIS SANCTUARY: i.e. Zion. See App-68.
THIS MOUNTAIN: viz. the one in the writer's view; not in "the memory
of an exile in Babylon"....
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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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God's guidance of Israel through the wilderness into Canaan. Cp.
Exodus 15:13-17. The circumstances of the Journey have been already
recounted in Psalms 78:13 ff....
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_The border of his sanctuary_may mean the land of Canaan, as that in
which He purposed to place His temple, and _this mountain_may denote
Mount Zion. But it is preferable to render to his holy border,...
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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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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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THIS MOUNTAIN — _i.e._, Zion, though from its apposition to _border_
some prefer to take it of all the mountain country of Judæa.
PURCHASED. — Rather, _acquired.
_...
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וַ֭ יְבִיאֵם אֶל ־גְּב֣וּל קָדְשֹׁ֑ו
הַר ־זֶ֝
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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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SAFELY LED, YET BENT ON WANDERING
Psalms 78:49
This section of the psalm deals largely with the books of Joshua and
Judges. The failures that had characterized the Wilderness crossed the
Jordan with...
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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 he brought them to the border of his (h) sanctuary, [even to] this
mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased.
(h) Meaning, Canaan, which God had consecrated to himself and
appointed to his p...
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Here a sweet contrast is drawn, in the view of divine love and
compassion, notwithstanding human ingratitude. The sacred writer takes
up the subject in tracing the history of the church even into Cana...
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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 HE BROUGHT THEM TO THE BORDER OF HIS SANCTUARY,.... Of the land of
Canaan, which the Lord had sanctified, and set apart for them; and of
Jerusalem, the holy city, the city of the great God, and of...
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_And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, [even to] this
mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased._
Ver. 54. _And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary_] _i.e._
Of Judea, wh...
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_But made his own people go out like sheep_ Distinguishing between
them and the Egyptians, _as a shepherd divideth between the sheep and
the goats_, having set his own mark upon these sheep, by the bl...
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And He brought them to the border of His Sanctuary, literally, "to the
boundary of His holiness," the region or land in which His holiness
was to rule, EVEN TO THIS MOUNTAIN, WHICH HIS RIGHT HAND HAD...
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The Narrative of God's Deeds...
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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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OF HIS SANCTUARY; or, _of his holiness_, or his holy place i.e. the
land of Canaan, which is so called, EZRA 9:8 MALACHI 2:12, &c., as
being separated by God from all other lands for his people and
se...
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Psalms 78:54 brought H935 (H8686) holy H6944 border H1366 mountain
H2022 hand H3225 acquired H7069 (H8804)...
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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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Daniel 11:45; Daniel 9:16; Ephesians 1:14; Exodus 15:13; Exodus 15:17
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Holy place — The land of Canaan, separated by God from all other
lands. Mountain — The mountainous country of Canaan; the word
mountain is often used in scripture for a mountainous country....