Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 105:12
A few men in number, Heb. men of number, i.e. few, who could easily be numbered, very few, as the next words explain it.
A few men in number, Heb. men of number, i.e. few, who could easily be numbered, very few, as the next words explain it.
Verse Psalms 105:12. BUT _A FEW MEN_] When all appearances were against them, and nothing but the arm of God could have brought them through their difficulties, and given them a settlement in the prom...
WHEN THEY WERE BUT A FEW MEN IN NUMBER - literally, “In their being people of number, very little.” That is, They could then be easily numbered, and they were so few that they could not take possessio...
Psalms 105 AND 106 The Memories of the Past The last two Psalms of this fourth section review the entire history of Israel up to the time of the judges. It is the story of God's faithfulness and merc...
CV. HEBREW HISTORY FROM ABRAHAM TO JOSHUA. Psalms 105:1. Introductory. An invitation to praise God. Psalms 105:7. The covenant and promise of Canaan. Psalms 105:12. Yahweh's kindness to the
THEY. Some codices, with Aram, and Syriac, read "ye": i.e. not the three Patriarchs, but the descendants of each one respectively. FEW MEN IN NUMBER. men (Hebrew. _methim._ App-14. V) of number: i.e....
WHEN THERE WERE BUT A FEW MEN IN NUMBER— It is literally _men of number;_ so few as easily to be numbered; in opposition to what their posterity afterwards were, _as the sand of the sea without number...
PSALMS 105 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Hymn of Praise to Jehovah for Giving Israel a Covenant Land in which to Observe His Law. ANALYSIS The Main Design of this Psalm is clearly to Endear the Land to the P...
He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. - HE HATH REMEMBERED HIS COVENANT FOREVER, THE WORD WHICH HE COMMANDED - or 'ordained' as an unalter...
105:12 men (g-6) As Deuteronomy 4:27 ....
This Ps. and the following one form a closely connected pair, and may be looked on as by the same author. From the closing vv. of Psalms 106 it appears that they were written after the first return fr...
Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ ISRAEL IN EGYPT PSALMS 105 Jesus lived in Egypt until Herod died. So, what the *Lord said to the *prophet really happened. He said, "I have brought my son out of...
בִּֽ֭ הְיֹותָם מְתֵ֣י מִסְפָּ֑ר כִּ֝ מְעַ֗ט ו
Psalms 105:1 IT is a reasonable conjecture that the Hallelujah at the end of Psalms 104:1, where it is superfluous, properly belongs to this psalm, which would then be assimilated to Psalms 106:1, whi...
THE LORD'S COVENANT WITH ISRAEL Psalms 105:1 This psalm and the next are a pair, probably composed during the Exile in Babylon. They are evidently derived in part from the old Tabernacle service, in...
This and the following psalm are companions. They reveal the two sides of the relation between God and His people during a long period. This one sings the song of His faithfulness and power; while the...
_Words. And Moses his servant, Exodus xiv. 31., and xv. 1._...
The Psalmist, to awaken in his own heart a proper sense of God's goodness, and to stir up suitable and corresponding affections in himself and the Church towards the Lord, for such love, in these vers...
12._When they were but very few in number _The prophet here recounts the benefits which God had conferred upon the holy fathers from the commencement, to manifest that even long before the deliverance...
Psalms 105 offers thanksgiving to Jehovah, and calls on the seed of Abraham and Jacob to remember Him and glory in His name. Verses 7-8 (Psalms 105:7-8) give the occasion. He is Jehovah, their God. Hi...
WHEN THEY WERE BUT A FEW MEN IN NUMBER,.... Or "men of number" d, that might easily be numbered; see Genesis 34:30, when this covenant, promise, and oath, were first made to Abraham, he was alone, and...
When they were [but] a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it. Ver. 12. _When they were but a few men in number_] Seventy souls at their going down into Egypt, which yet (say the Hebre...
_When they were but few in number_ Hebrew, מתי מספר, _methee mispar, men of number_, so few as easily to be numbered, in opposition to what their posterity afterward were, _as the sand of the sea with...
when they were but a few men in number, Genesis 34:30, YEA, VERY FEW, AND STRANGERS IN IT....
THANKSGIVING FOR GOD'S BENEFITS. After an exhortation to praise God, directed especially to the congregation of Israel, the psalmist offers his reasons for the admonition presented, in a summary of I...
8-23 Let us remember the Redeemer's marvellous works, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth. Though true Christians are few number, strangers and pilgrims upon earth, yet a far better inheritan...
Psalms 105:12 few H4962 number H4557 few H4592 strangers H1481 (H8802) a few - Genesis 34:30;...
CONTENTS: Jehovah extolled for His deliverances of Israel. The coming forth from Egypt described. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist, Moses, Aaron, Jacob, Joseph, Abraham. CONCLUSION: God's marvelous works w...
This psalm, to Psalms 105:15, is the same as 1 Chronicles 16:8: whence it is evident that David was the author. It celebrates the dealings of God with Israel, from the call of Abraham to their settlem...
_He is the Lord our God: His judgments are in all the earth._ GOD IN JEWISH HISTORY, WORKING FOR HIS PEOPLE I. His absolute sovereignty (verse 9). The selection of Abraham to distinguished privileges...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 105:1. Psalms 105:1 is a historical psalm, like Psalms 78
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 105:12 God watches over his people. The first specific example of this comes from Genesis 20:1, when Abraham stayed in Gerar. When the king of Gerar took Sarah to be his wife,
INTRODUCTION “This Psalm,” says Perowne, “like the 78th and the 106th, has for its theme the early history of Israel, and God’s wonders wrought on behalf of the nation; but it differs from both those...
EXPOSITION This is sometimes called a "Hallelujah psalm," since it ends with that phrase. It is a song of praise to God for his dealings with his people, resembling in its general character Psalms 78:...
O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk of all of his wondrous works (Psalms 105:1-2). Now we are exhorted her...
Acts 7:5; Deuteronomy 26:5; Deuteronomy 7:7; Ezekiel 33:24; Genesis 1