Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 78:27
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, in great abundance, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea, a day's journey wide around their camp and two cubits high;
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, in great abundance, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea, a day's journey wide around their camp and two cubits high;
HE RAINED FLESH ALSO UPON THEM AS DUST - The flesh of quails, Numbers 11:31. The word “rained” means that they seemed to come upon them like a copious shower. The word dust denotes their great abundan...
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 ...
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...
RAINED. As in Psalms 78:24. AS THE SAND. Figure of speech _Paroemia_. App-6....
In spite of these miracles of mercy they sinned yet more, and tempted God in their unbelief, so that while He supplied their wants He was compelled to punish them for their sin. The order is logical n...
And he rained flesh upon them as the dust, And winged fowl as the sand of the seas. The sending of quails is connected, as in Exodus 16, with the sending of the manna; but the language of the Psalm...
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:...
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. -The unbelief of the Israelite fathers is detailed as a sad contrast to God's marvels performed i...
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...
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
No doubt there is poetical hyperbole here, but for the enormous numbers of quails that are now caught, see the article quoted above....
וַ יַּמְטֵ֬ר עֲלֵיהֶ֣ם כֶּ † עָפָ֣ר שְׁאֵ֑ר...
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
BLESSED YET UNGRATEFUL Psalms 78:25 God our Father is prepared to do “exceeding abundantly” for His children; but too often we become so engrossed with His gifts as to forget and neglect the Giver. W...
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,...
What gracious instructions are read to us in these verses! See, my soul, how unsuitable and self-destroying would prove thy desires in numberless instances, if the Lord, in anger, granted them to thy...
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...
HE RAINED FLESH ALSO UPON THEM AS DUST,.... By "flesh" is meant fowl, as the following clause shows; for there is flesh of birds, as well as of other creatures, see 1 Corinthians 15:39 and the quails...
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: Ver. 27. _He rained flesh also upon them as dust_] _Dapibus illos compluit._ This he had done once before for...
_He caused an east wind to blow_, &c. First an eastern, and afterward a southern wind. _He rained flesh, &c., and feathered fowls like as the sand_ Hebrew, עו Š כנ Š, _gnoph chanap, fowl of wing_, or...
FEATHERED FOELS: _ Heb._ fowl of wing...
1-8 These are called dark and deep sayings, because they are carefully to be looked into. The law of God was given with a particular charge to teach it diligently to their children, that the church m...
FEATHERED FOWLS, Heb. _winged fowl_; which is noted to show that it was a supernatural work, whereby God took away from them the use of their wings, and made them to fall into the hands of the Israeli...
Psalms 78:27 rained H4305 (H8686) meat H7607 dust H6083 Feathered H3671 fowl H5775 sand H2344 seas H3220...
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...
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...
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...
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...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:17 In spite of the deeds the people had seen, YET THEY SINNED STILL MORE AGAINST God. ⇐...
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_.—...
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...
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...
Exodus 16:12; Exodus 16:13; Numbers 11:18; Numbers 11:19; Numbers 11:3
Fowl — But God took away from them the use of their wings, and made them to fall into the hands of the Israelites....