Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 106:26
Therefore (n) he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
(n) That is, he swore. Sometimes also it means to punish.
Therefore (n) he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
(n) That is, he swore. Sometimes also it means to punish.
THEREFORE HE LIFTED UP HIS HAND AGAINST THEM - Numbers 14:27. He resolved to cut them off, so that none of them should reach the promised land. TO OVERTHROW THEM IN THE WILDERNESS - literally, to cau...
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...
THEREFORE HE LIFTED UP HIS HAND— Lifting the hand was the usual form of swearing. As the history observes, that upon their refusing to take possession of the Promised Land, God swore that themselves s...
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...
106:26 hand (b-6) i.e. he swore. see Exodus 6:8 ....
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...
LIFTED UP HIS HAND] sware. TO OVERTHROW] RV 'that he would overthrow.' So in Psalms 106:27....
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....
LIFTED UP HIS HAND. — Not to strike, but to give emphasis to the oath pronounced against the sinners. (See Exodus 6:8, margin; Deuteronomy 32:40; comp. Psalms 144:8.) The substance of the oath here re...
(24-27) The rebellion that followed the report of the spies....
וַ יִּשָּׂ֣א יָדֹ֣ו לָהֶ֑ם לְ הַפִּ֥יל אֹ֝ותָ
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...
_Heavens. So Virgil says: Tollimur in cælum curvato gurgite & iidem_ Subducta ad Manes imos descendimus unda. (\'c6neid iii.)...
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...
26._And he lifted up. _He describes another example of the vengeance of God, the recollection of which ought to have been deeply seated in their hearts, so that cherishing a constant fear of him, they...
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...
THEREFORE HE LIFTED UP HIS HAND AGAINST THEM,.... A gesture used in swearing, Genesis 14:22. So the Targum understands it here, "and he lifted up his hand with an oath, because of them:'' and so it...
Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness: Ver. 26. _Therefore he lifted up his hand_] _i.e._ He solemnly swore, as Numbers 14:30, or he was fetching his full...
_They despised the pleasant land_ Canaan, which was so, not only in truth, but even by the relation of those spies, who discouraged them from entering into it. They preferred Egypt and their former bo...
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...
Therefore He lifted up His hand against them to overthrow them in the wilderness,...
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 LIFTED UP HIS HAND; he sware, as this phrase is commonly used, as Genesis 14:22 Deuteronomy 32:40 Nehemiah 9:15 Revelation
Psalms 106:26 up H5375 (H8799) hand H3027 overthrow H5307 (H8687) wilderness H4057 Therefore -...
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...
_Yea, they despised the pleasant land._ THE PERSISTENCY OF SIN, THE RETRIBUTION OF GOD, AND THE INFLUENCE OF SAINTS I. The awful persistency of sin (verses 24, 25, 28). You may reason with the sinner...
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 106:24 The sad list now moves to what happened when the 12 spies returned from their mission to scout out the land that God had promised (Numbers 13:32). Ten of them gave a
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...
Deuteronomy 1:34; Deuteronomy 1:35; Deuteronomy 32:40; Exodus 6:8;...
Lifted up — He sware. Of this dreadful and irrevocable oath of God, see Numbers 14:11....