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Psalms 78:46
He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, literally, "the eater," the cricket, and their labor unto the locust, in the eighth plague, Exodus 10:13.
He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, literally, "the eater," the cricket, and their labor unto the locust, in the eighth plague, Exodus 10:13.
Verse Psalms 78:46. _THE CATERPILLAR AND - THE LOCUST._] See on Exodus 10:13....
HE GAVE ALSO THEIR INCREASE UNTO THE CATERPILLAR - The increase or the produce of their fields. Exodus 10:12. The word חסיל _châsı̂yl_ - is supposed to denote a species of locust rather than the cate...
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...
CATERPILLER. corn locust.. more specific word than Exodus 10:1. It occurs in Joel 1:4; Joel 2:25. LABOUR. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the fruit of labour....
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...
The eighth plague, Exodus 10:1 ff. _their increase_ The produce of the land (Psalms 67:6). The word rendered -caterpillar" is not used in Exodus, but often occurs elsewhere, and probably denotes the...
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:...
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...
78:46 caterpillar, (g-8) Lit. 'the devourer,' a species of locust. so 1 Kings 8:37 ; 2 Chronicles 6:28 . see Joel 1:4 ....
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
CATERPILLAR. — Heb., _chasîl._ (See 1 Kings 8:37.) Probably the _locust_ in the _larva_ or _pupa_ state. For _locust_ see Exodus 10:4 _seq.,_ and _Bib. Ed.,_ iv. 292. The LXX., Vulg., and Symmachus ha...
וַ יִּתֵּ֣ן לֶ † חָסִ֣יל יְבוּלָ֑ם וִֽ֝...
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
“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...
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,...
He (c) gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. (c) He does not repeat here all the miracles that God did in Egypt, but certain which might be sufficient to co...
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...
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 GAVE ALSO THEIR INCREASE UNTO THE CATERPILLAR,.... A kind of locust, and the same with the locust in the next clause; for we read but of the locust only in Exodus 10:13 AND THEIR LABOUR UNTO THE L...
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. Ver. 46. _He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar_] Together with the grasshopper, Exodus 10:12,15, God's...
_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...
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...
The herbs and grains which were come up by their care and diligent labour....
Psalms 78:46 gave H5414 (H8799) crops H2981 caterpillar H2625 labor H3018 locust H697 gave also -...
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 78:40 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
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...
Amos 7:1; Amos 7:2; Exodus 10:12; Isaiah 33:4; Joel 1:4;...
Labour — The herbs which were come up by their care and labour....