Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, even after they were in possession of the Promised Land with all its blessings, Judges 2:11, and kept not His testimonies, all the regulations intended for the guidance of their conduct,
YET THEY TEMPTED AND PROVOKED ... - They tried the patience of God, and provoked him to anger after they were peaceably settled in the promised land. See Judges 2:10. The object is to show that it was...
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...
THE MOST HIGH. Hebrew. _'eth 'Elohim 'Elyon._ App-4....
_Yet_&c. Yet they tempted and rebelled against God the Most High. In spite of all God's goodness to them, they persisted in their old unfaithfulness. Cp. Psalms 78:17_; Psalms 40, 41. God the Most Hig...
The unfaithfulness of Israel in Canaan during the period of the Judges....
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:...
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: -Israel's unfaithfulness in the time of the Judges caused God to forsake the tabernacle of Shiloh, and brought down ot...
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
וַ יְנַסּ֣וּ וַ֭ יַּמְרוּ אֶת ־אֱלֹהִ֣ים עֶלְ
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
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...
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,...
Here a sweet contrast is drawn, in the view of divine love and compassion, notwithstanding human ingratitude. The sacred writer takes up the subject in tracing the history of the church even into Cana...
56._And they tempted and provoked the Most High God. _Here they are upbraided for having, notwithstanding the many tokens of the divine favor by which they were distinguished, persevered in acting per...
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...
YET THEY TEMPTED AND PROVOKED THE MOST HIGH GOD,.... After the death of Joshua, and in the times of the judges, by worshipping and serving the gods of the nations, and forsaking the Lord their God, wh...
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: Ver. 56. _Yet they tempted and provoked, &c._] Neither God's judgments on their enemies nor his mercies to themselves co...
56-72 After the Israelites were settled in Canaan, the children were like their fathers. God gave them his testimonies, but they turned back. Presumptuous sins render even Israelites hateful to God's...
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Psalms 78:56 tested H5254 (H8762) provoked H4784 (H8686) High H5945 God H430 keep H8104 (H8804) testimonies...
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...
_And kept not His testimonies: but turned back, and dealt unfaithfully their fathers._ THE DECEITFULNESS OF THE HEART AS TO DUTY I. As to the performance of duty, the heart discovers its power of de...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:56 These verses describe the time of the judges, leading up to the capture of the ark and the death of Eli and his sons (vv. Psalms 78:60; see...
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...
2 Kings 17:7; Deuteronomy 31:16; Deuteronomy 32:15; Ezekiel 16:15;...