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AND HAD TURNED THEIR RIVERS INTO BLOOD - Exodus 7:20. There was
properly but one river in Egypt - the Nile. But there were several
branches of that river at the mouth; and there were numerous
artifici...
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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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TURNED THEIR RIVERS. The first plague (Exodus 7:17, &c)....
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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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And turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, that they could not drink.
See Exodus 7:17 ff. The word for -rivers" (_y"ôr_) is one specially
used of the Nile and its canals....
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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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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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FLOODS] RV 'streams.'...
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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 יַּהֲפֹ֣ךְ לְ֭ דָם יְאֹרֵיהֶ֑ם וְ֝
נֹזְלֵי
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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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“SIGNS IN EGYPT”
Psalms 78:38
God takes into account the frailty and infirmity of our natures. _The
Spirit… helpeth our infirmities_, Romans 8:26. In the words of
Hosea, God teaches us “to go;” that...
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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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Here, by way of remembrance, the prophet carries back the subject to
the period of the church's deliverance at the time of the Egyptian
bondage, and gives some of the striking examples of the Lord's
d...
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44._When he turned their rivers into blood. _The Psalmist does not
enumerate in their order the miracles by which God gave evidence of
his power in the deliverance of his people. He considered it enou...
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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 HAD TURNED THEIR RIVERS INTO BLOOD,.... The river Nile and its
seven streams; this was the first of the plagues of Egypt, Exodus
7:20, and was a just retaliation for drowning the infants of the
Is...
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And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they
could not drink.
Ver. 44. _And had turned their rivers into blood, &c._] Seven of those
ten plagues of Egypt are here instanced, to...
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_How he had wrought his signs in Egypt_ Here the Psalm goes back to
the subject of Israelitish ingratitude, (mentioned Psalms 78:11,) in
order to introduce an account of the miracles wrought in Egypt...
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The Narrative of God's Deeds...
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and had turned their rivers into blood, in the first general plague,
Exodus 7:17, AND THEIR FLOODS, THAT THEY COULD NOT DRINK....
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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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The several branches and streams of the river Nilus, and those many
rivulets which they brought from it....
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Psalms 78:44 Turned H2015 (H8799) rivers H2975 blood H1818 streams
H5140 (H8802) drink H8354 (H8799)...
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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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Exodus 7:17; Psalms 105:29; Revelation 16:3...