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HE MADE A WAY TO HIS ANGER - Margin, he weighed a path. He leveled a
path for it; he took away all hindrance to it; he allowed it to have
free scope. The idea of weighing is not in the original. The a...
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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 (Psalms 78:12)
4. The continued provocat...
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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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MADE. pondered, or weighed. Compare Proverbs 4:26; Proverbs 5:6;
Proverbs 5:21. Contrast Isaiah 26:7.
SOUL. Hebrew. _n_ ephesh. App-13....
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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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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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Psalms 73:89
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
TELL YOUR CHILDREN
PSALMS 78
JESUS SAID, "LET THE LITTLE CHILDREN COME TO ME. DO NOT STOP THEM".
(MATTHEW 19:14)
PSALMS 78:1-8
(This is one) of *Asaph’s Psalms t...
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MADE A WAY. — Literally, _levelled a path._ So Symmachus....
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יְפַלֵּ֥ס נָתִ֗יב לְ אַ֫פֹּ֥ו לֹא
־חָשַׂ֣ךְ מִ מָּ֣וֶת נַפְשָׁ֑ם וְ֝
חַיָּתָ֗ם לַ † דֶּ֥בֶר...
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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 especially the
Exodus and wilderness wanderings, for purposes of...
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SAFELY LED, YET BENT ON WANDERING
Psalms 78:49
This section of the psalm deals largely with the books of Joshua and
Judges. The failures that had characterized the Wilderness crossed the
Jordan with...
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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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50._He made a way to his anger. _(352) To take away all excuse from
this ungrateful people, whom the most evident and striking proofs of
the goodness of God which were presented before their eyes coul...
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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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HE MADE A WAY TO HIS ANGER,.... Or, "for" it, so that nothing could
obstruct it, or hinder the execution of it; or "he weighed a path for
his anger" m; he weighed it in the balance of justice, and
pro...
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He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but
gave their life over to the pestilence;
Ver. 50. _He made a way to his anger_] Heb. He weighed a path,
recompensing their unjust s...
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_He made a way to his anger_ By removing every obstacle that mercy had
thrown in the path of justice, he made a way for his indignation,
which then rushed forth like a fiery stream. Hebrew, יפלס נתיב...
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The Narrative of God's Deeds...
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HE MADE A WAY:
_ Heb._ He weighed a path
THEIR LIFE OVER TO THE PESTILENCE:
Or, their beasts, to the murreine...
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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 disco...
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HE MADE A WAY, Heb. _He weighed a path or causeway_, i.e. he made a
most smooth, and even, and exact path, as if he had done it by weight
and measure, that so his anger might pass swiftly and freely w...
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Psalms 78:50 made H6424 (H8762) path H5410 anger H639 spare H2820
(H8804) soul H5315 death H4194 gave H5462 life H2416 over H5462
(H8689) plague H1698
made way - Heb. weighed a path
he spared - Job 2...
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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
(P...
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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; Psalms 106:1), recalling events from Israel’s past. It
shows how God persevered with his people, even when they disbe...
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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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2 Peter 2:4; 2 Peter 2:5; Exodus 9:3; Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 7:4;
Ezekiel 7:9; Ezekiel 8:18; Ezekiel 9:10; Job 27:22; Romans 8:32...