Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 78:4
The praises, i.e. his glorious and praiseworthy actions, as the following words explain it.
The praises, i.e. his glorious and praiseworthy actions, as the following words explain it.
Verse Psalms 78:4. _WE WILL NOT HIDE_ THEM] In those ancient times there was very _little reading_, because _books_ were exceedingly scarce; _tradition_ was therefore the only, or nearly the only, me...
WE WILL NOT HIDE THEM FROM THEIR CHILDREN - From their descendants, however remote. We of this generation will be faithful in handing down these truths to future times. We stand between past generatio...
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...
CHILDREN. sons. SHEWING. Recounting. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. WONDERFUL WORKS. wonders. Compare Psalms 77:11; Psalms 77:14....
The Psalmist's solemn invitation to his countrymen to listen to his teaching. He proposes to set forth the lessons to be drawn from Israel's past history, in obedience to God's command to hand on the...
It is best to place a full stop at the end of Psalms 78:2, and connect Psalms 78:3 thus: The things which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told to us, We will not hide from their sons,...
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:...
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. WHICH WE HAVE HEARD ... WE WILL NOT HIDE. See introductory remarks. Translate, 'What we have heard, etc., we will not hide (omit them) f...
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
לֹ֤א נְכַחֵ֨ד ׀ מִ בְּנֵיהֶ֗ם לְ דֹ֥ור אַחֲרֹ
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
LEARNING FROM THE FATHERS Psalms 78:1 This psalm is said to have arisen, from a strong controversy between Judah and Ephraim as to the location of God's sanctuary, and its final transfer within the l...
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,...
_Us. The Idumeans, &c., are hence blamed by the prophets, Ezechiel xxv. 12., and Abdias 10. (Calmet) --- Christ and his disciples have been treated with scorn, (Berthier) being styled Galileans, Papis...
How lovely is it to behold, even from the days of the patriarchs, the care and attention with which the fathers handed down the testimony they had received concerning the promised seed. Hence we find...
4._We will not conceal them from their children in the generation to come. _Some take the verb נכחד, _nechached, _in the _nephil _conjugation, and translate it, _they are not concealed or hidden. _But...
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...
WE WILL NOT HIDE THEM FROM THEIR CHILDREN,.... The children of the Jewish fathers, but faithfully publish and declare them, as Christ and his apostles did; or the children of God and Christ, their spi...
We will not hide [them] from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. Ver. 4. _We will not hide them fro...
_Showing the praises of the Lord_ His glorious and praiseworthy actions, as the following words explain it. _For he established a testimony in Jacob_ That is, his law, as it is called in the next clau...
A REVIEW OF ISRAEL'S HISTORY AS A SOURCE OF CONSOLATION. Maschil of Asaph, a didactic poem, intended to instruct the children of Israel in the wonderful ways of the Lord and to warn them against apos...
We will not hide them from their children, by refusing to hand them down by word of mouth and by written record, SHOWING TO THE GENERATION TO COME, the children which are now growing up, THE PRAISES O...
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...
Psalms 78:4 hide H3582 (H8762) children H1121 Telling H5608 (H8764) generation H1755 come H314 praises H8416 LORD...
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...
_We will not hide them from their children._ CHILDREN I. The interesting objects of our solicitude mentioned. Consider-- 1. The love which welcomes them. 2. The evils which surround them. 3. The...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
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...
Deuteronomy 11:19; Deuteronomy 4:9; Deuteronomy 6:7; Isaiah 63:7;...