Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 114:1
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of (a) strange language;
(a) Or, barbarous.
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of (a) strange language;
(a) Or, barbarous.
PSALM CXIV _Miracles wrought at the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt,_ _at the Red Sea, and at Jordan_, 1-6; _and at the rock of Horeb_, 7, 8. NOTES ON PSALM CXIV This Psalm has no _title_. T...
WHEN ISRAEL WENT OUT OF EGYPT - literally, “In the going out of Israel from Egypt.” This is not to be confined to the exact act of the exodus, but embraces all that properly entered into that migratio...
PSALM 114-117 Psalms 114 Retrospect As in the book of Deuteronomy God's ways with His people are reviewed so we find in some of these Psalms the reminders of God's dealing with Israel in the past....
CXIV. The marvels on the way from Egypt to Zion, the future sanctuary of Yahweh, and to Canaan as Israel's possession. A Passover hymn....
WHEN ISRAEL. Compare Exodus 13:3. EGYPT. Not Babylon. The Psalm not post-exilic. JACOB. See notes on Genesis 32:28; Genesis 43:6;...
_An exhortation, by the example of the dumb creatures, to fear God in his church._ BISHOP PATRICK supposes, that as the foregoing psalm recites some instances of divine providence to particular peopl...
PSALMS 114 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Passover Song. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 114:1-2, The Deliverance out of Egypt set forth as the Basis of Jehovah's Worship and Reign in Israel. Stanza II., Psalms 11...
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; Psalms 114:1.-Yahweh owned Israel as His after her departure from Egypt, by driving back the Red Sea and the Jor...
STRANGE LANGUAGE] i.e. unintelligible speech—foreign....
This has been called 'one of the finest lyrics in literature.' Probably it is a post-exilic psalm wherein, under the figure of the old exodus from Egypt, the Psalmist chants the return from Babylon. I...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ SEAS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS AND HILLS OBEY GOD! PSALMS 114 Jesus said, "If you have *faith as small as a (very small) seed, (this is what you can do). You will say...
WHEN ISRAEL WENT OUT. — LXX., in _“_the Exodus of Israel.” A PEOPLE OF STRANGE LANGUAGE. — LXX., rightly, “a barbarous people.” Since the Hebrew word, like the Greek, implies a certain scorn or ridic...
בְּ צֵ֣את יִ֭שְׂרָאֵל מִ מִּצְרָ֑יִם בֵּ֥ית י
Psalms 114:1 It is possible that in this psalm Israel, restored from Babylon, is looking back to the earlier Exodus, and shrilling with the great thought that that old past lives again in the present....
THE MIGHTY GOD UPLIFTETH THE LOWLY Psalms 113:1; Psalms 114:1 We detect the song of Samuel's mother in the first of these psalms. She sang the Old Testament “Magnificat” and it was embalmed by the ps...
This is the second psalm in the Hallel. The first set forth the might and mercy of Jehovah. This is pre-eminently a song of His might, and so the name of God is used. If however it sings of His might,...
Alleluia occurs in Hebrew at the end of the foregoing psalm, (Haydock) with which this and the following have an intimate connexion, alluding to the liberation of the captives. Hammond discovers some...
CONTENTS This psalm is descriptive of the going forth of Israel from Egypt; but as this was a transaction typical of the church being led forth by the great Captain of their salvation from the Egypt...
1_When Israel went out from Egypt _That exodus being a remarkable pledge and symbol of God’s love for the children of Abraham, it is not surprising that it should be so frequently called to remembranc...
Psalms 114 is of the highest style of poetry, but is important to us as directly connecting the ancient deliverance of Israel out of Egypt with the present deliverance of the people, and seeing the sa...
WHEN ISRAEL WENT OUT OF EGYPT,.... The people of Israel in a body, publicly, openly, and not by stealth; freely and willingly, not forced and drove out; though urged by the Egyptians to go, through th...
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; Ver. 1. _When Israel went out of Egypt_] _E medio gentis, id est, ex visceribus Aegyptiorum, qui eos quasi degluti...
_When Israel went out of Egypt_ That is, were brought out by mighty signs and wonders wrought by the power of God; _from a people of a strange language_ From a barbarous people, as some render it: tho...
When Israel, God's chosen people, who had accepted the true God as their King, WENT OUT OF EGYPT, THE HOUSE OF JACOB, which had entered Egypt as a family and left it as a nation, FROM A PEOPLE OF STRA...
THE GOD OF JACOB THE DELIVERER OUT OF EGYPT. A majestic song celebrating the care of God for His people at the time of the exodus from Egypt, when all the powers of nature were called to contribute f...
PSALM 114 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm is a solemn commemoration of Israel's deliverance out of Egypt; and probably it was to be sung, amongst others, at the celebration of the passover. The psalmist, rehe...
Psalms 114:1 Israel H3478 out H3318 (H8800) Egypt H4714 house H1004 Jacob H3290 people H5971 language H3937 ...
Psalms 114:1. When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back. T...
CONTENTS: The deliverance of Israel out of Egypt. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: He who made the hills and the mountains to skip, can when He pleases dissipate the strength and spirit of the...
This is another hallelujah psalm, praising the Lord for deliverance from Egypt for calling the Hebrews to holiness for dividing the sea, and driving Jordan back for making the mountains skip like lamb...
_When Israel went out of Egypt._ THE WORKINGS OF THE ETERNAL WILL God has a will. He doeth all things after the “counsel of His own will.” The universe is but His will in form and action. It is the...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 114:1. This hymn of praise celebrates the special status of Israel in God’s plan. All of nature obeys the Lord, and yet he has chosen little Israel to be his own. He exerts...
INTRODUCTION Date and Authorship unknown; ascribed to the three Hebrew children, Esther and Mordscai. BONDAGE AND DELIVERANCE (_Psalms 114:1_) I. THE BONDAGE WAS DEGRADING. “Israel,” “Egypt”. The d...
EXPOSITION A PSALM of reminiscence, designed to encourage the exiles on their return from Babylon, during their "day of small things" (Zechariah 4:10; comp. Ezra 3:12). If God had done so much for the...
Now Psalms 114:1-8 is a little psalm that calls the deliverance of the... recalls the deliverance of the children of Israel out of the bondage of Egypt. When Israel went out of Egypt, and the house of...
Deuteronomy 16:1; Deuteronomy 26:8; Exodus 12:41; Exodus 12:42; E