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AND THEY SINNED YET MORE AGAINST HIM - literally, “They added to sin
against him.” The idea is, that his mercies, and the proofs of his
presence were only made the occasion of greater sin on their par...
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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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SINNED. Hebrew. _chata'._ t
HE MOST HIGH. Hebrew. _Elyon._ App-4. Compare Psalms 78:35, and Psalms
77:10....
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Yet went they on still to sin against him,
Rebelling against the Most High in the land of drought.
Both the occasions referred to in Psalms 78:15 were connected with
murmuring. The names of _Massah_...
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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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AND THEY SINNED YET MORE— _Yet they sinned still more._...
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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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78:17 provoking (d-9) Or 'rebelling against;' and so ver. 40....
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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 יֹּוסִ֣יפוּ עֹ֖וד לַ חֲטֹא ־לֹ֑ו
לַֽ
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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 (k) sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in
the wilderness.
(k) Their wicked malice could be overcome by no benefits, which were
great and many....
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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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17._Yet they continued still to sin against him. _The prophet, having
briefly declared how God, by a continual succession of benefits, had
clearly manifested the greatness of his love towards the chil...
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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 SINNED YET MORE AGAINST HIM,.... Or, "and they added yet to
sin against him" c; which was great ingratitude; they had sinned
before, and it might have been hoped that the goodness of God to t...
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And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the
wilderness.
Ver. 17. _And they sinned yet more against him_] The better he was to
them the worse were they toward him, as if God...
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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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And they sinned yet more against Him by provoking the Most High in the
wilderness, with their continual rebellious murmurings....
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The Narrative of God's Deeds...
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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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Where they had such strong and singular obligations to obedience, both
from the great things which God had then and there done for them, and
from their dependence upon God's favour and help for their...
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Psalms 78:17 sinned H2398 (H8800) more H3254 (H8686) rebelling H4784
(H8687) High H5945 wilderness H6723...
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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 sinned yet more against Him by provoking the Most High in
the wilderness._
SIN MULTIPLYING WITH MERCIES
The more copiously the showers of mercies fell upon the Jew in the
wilderness, the m...
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_The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back
in the day of battle._
GOD IN HUMAN HISTORY
I. A people is a community that are most favoured with privileges are
oftentimes the...
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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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Deuteronomy 9:12; Deuteronomy 9:8; Hebrews 3:16; Psalms 106:13;...
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Wilderness — Where they had such singular obligations to obedience.
This was a great aggravation of their sins....