Verse Psalms 106:33. They provoked his spirit] המרו himru, from מרה marah, to rebel: they brought it into a rebellious state; he was soured and irritated, and was off his guard.
So that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.] For this sentence we have only these two words in the Hebrew, ויבטא בשפתיו vayebatte bisephathaiv, he stuttered or stammered with his lips, indicating that he was transported with anger. See the notes on Numbers 20:10-4.
BECAUSE THEY PROVOKED HIS SPIRIT - literally, “They made his spirit bitter,” or they embittered his soul. They threw him off his guard, so that instead of manifesting the meekness and gentleness which...
Psalms 105 AND 106 The Memories of the Past The last two Psalms of this fourth section review the entire history of Israel up to the time of the judges. It is the story of God's faithfulness and merc...
CVI. ISRAEL'S SIN. Psalms 106:1. Introduction. Praise to Yahweh for His power and greatness. The writer's desire to share in Israel's joy. PSALMS 106:3. HE THAT DOETH: read they that do. Psalms 106...
HIS: i.e. Moses. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach_. App-9. SPAKE UNADVISEDLY.. very rare Hebrew word. Occurs only here in the Psalms....
SO THAT HE SPAKE UNADVISEDLY— The word _unadvisedly_ is added in the Translation. The original says only that _he spake with his lips:_ the speaking with the lips, being a thing in itself indifferent...
PSALMS 106 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Humbled Israel Confessing Her Sins as a Nation. ANALYSIS Enclosed within an Introduction of Praise and Prayer, Psalms 106:1-5, and a Conclusion of Prayer and Doxology,...
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: (1) The people's distrust of the Lord's word as to Canaan after hearing the spies' report (Psalms 106:24-19). (2) The sin of the n...
As Psalms 105 gives thanks for God's goodness, so Psalms 106 confesses Israel's sin and acknowledges God's mercy, both being illustrated in an historical retrospect from the deliverance from Egypt dow...
Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE *LORD IS GOOD! PSALMS 106 Jesus said, "Father, *forgive them. Because they do not know what they are doing". ...
(13-33) These twenty verses cover the desert wanderings, beginning with _the_ discontented spirit mentioned in Exodus 15:23....
THEY PROVOKED HIS SPIRIT. — The natural interpretation is to take this of Moses’ spirit. So LXX. and Vulg., “they embittered his spirit.” The usage of the phrase is, however, in favour of referring th...
The insurrection against Moses and Aaron at Meribah Kadesh, entailing on the Lawgiver the forfeiture for himself of entering into Canaan. (See references in the margin.)...
כִּֽי ־הִמְר֥וּ אֶת ־רוּחֹ֑ו וַ֝ יְבַטֵּ֗א בּ
Psalms 106:1 THE history of God's past is a record of continuous mercies, the history of man's, one of as continuous sin. The memory of the former quickened the psalmist into his sunny song of thankfu...
JUDGMENT RESTRAINED BY INTERCESSION Psalms 106:16 The strife between the ungodly and the servants of God has characterized all the centuries. These verses record some of its phases. Moses is called G...
The previous psalm called the people to talk of the “marvellous works” of Jehovah. This one calls to praise, and the reason is that “His mercy endureth for ever.” This fact is then illustrated by a de...
Wilderness. God caused his people to pass through the Red Sea, and the Jordan, to possess the fruitful country of Chanaan, part of which had been cursed for the crimes of the Sodomites. (Haydock) ---...
For the same reason as before, I include the whole of what is here rehearsed in one reading. But let not the Reader be as brief upon the interesting things here recorded. Let him consult the several p...
33._For they grieved his spirit _The verb מרה, _marah, _properly signifies _to vex _or _irritate, _but as it is here put in what the Hebrews call the Hiphil conjugation, some are of opinion that it is...
Psalms 106. "Hallelujah. Give thanks to Jehovah, for it is good (or He is good). His mercy endureth for ever." This last we have often seenthe expression of this unfailing faithful mercy of Jehovah, w...
BECAUSE THEY PROVOKED HIS SPIRIT;.... Though he was a very meek man, meeker than any upon the face of the earth, Numbers 12:2, yet, being greatly provoked, let fall some passionate and undue expressio...
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips. Ver. 33. _Because they provoked his spirit_] So that he was in a pelt to the grieving of God's good Spirit within him, Ep...
_They angered him also at the waters of strife_ Of which see Numbers 20:3. _It went ill with Moses for their sakes_ Or, _because of them_, upon occasion of their unbelief and murmuring, whereby he was...
GOD'S BLESSINGS IN SPITE OF ISRAEL'S UNFAITHFULNESS. This psalm, whose author is not known, gives a detailed confession of the sins of Israel, as contrasted with the wonders of God's mercy, the concl...
because they provoked His Spirit, resisting and grieving the Spirit of the Lord, Psalms 78:17, SO THAT HE, Moses, SPAKE UNADVISEDLY WITH HIS LIPS, thereby forfeiting his right to enter the Promised La...
13-33 Those that will not wait for God's counsel, shall justly be given up to their own hearts' lusts, to walk in their own counsels. An undue desire, even for lawful things, becomes sinful. God show...
HE SPAKE UNADVISEDLY: so this word is thought to signify, LEVITICUS 5:4 PROVERBS 12:18. Or, _he spake_, as the word commonly signifies. Not that it was in itself a sin to speak, but because he spake w...
Psalms 106:33 rebelled H4784 (H8689) Spirit H7307 rashly H981 (H8762) lips H8193 Because -...
Psalms 106:1. _Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever._ In this Psalm we have the history of God's people turned to practical account. I have...
In this Psalm we have the story of God's ancient covenant people, and as we read it, we may read our own history in it if we also are his people. It is a looking-glass, in which the beholder may see h...
This Psalm relates the story of God's mercy to Israel, of the people's provocation of Jehovah, and of his great patience with them. It commences with an exhortation to praise the Lord. Psalms 106:1....
CONTENTS: The badness of Israel made heinous by the great goodness of God. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist, Moses, Aaron, Dathan, Abiram, Phinehas. CONCLUSION: Man's perverseness arises continually from hi...
This also is a Psalm of David, and is cited in 1 Chronicles 16., although the first and the two last verses only are there given. The subject is similar to that of the preseding psalm; and it was prob...
_They angered Him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes._ A GOOD MAN SUFFERING FOR A COMMUNITY, AND A COMMUNITY PURSUING ITS WAY TO DESTRUCTION I. A good man su...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:1. This historical psalm (see notes on Psalms 78 and 105) retells a series of events from Israel’s history to illustrate God’s steadfas
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:6 This is a list of incidents that begins at the shore of the Red Sea (vv. Psalms 106:7) and ends during the time of the judges (vv....
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:32 AT THE WATERS OF MERIBAH the people complained about lack of water and accused Moses of bringing them out of Egypt to die. Their unbelief led Moses to speak RASHLY (that is...
INTRODUCTION “This it the first of a series of Hallelujah Psalms: Psalms of which the word Hallelujah is, as it were, the inscription (106, 111–113, 117, 135, 146–150.). As in the last Psalm, so here...
EXPOSITION This is the first of the strictly "Hallelujah psalms"—_i.e._ of the psalms beginning with the phrase "hallelujah"—which are Psalms 106:1, Psalms 111:1, Psalms 112:1,...
Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? Who can show forth all his praise? Blessed are they that ke...
Genesis 30:1; Genesis 35:16; James 3:2; Job 2:10; Job 38:2;...