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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 74 - Introduction

* The desolations of the sanctuary. (1-11) Pleas for encouraging faith. (12-17) Petitions for deliverances. (18-23)

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See also Psalms 74 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    This psalm is entitled “Maschil of Asaph.” On the word Maschil - meaning “didactic,” or adapted “to give instruction” - see the notes at the title to Psalms 32:1. On the phrase “of Asaph,” see the not...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    BOOK II. PSS. XLII.- LXXII. Psalms 42-83 are Elohistic, _i.e._ they use the word God (Elohim) and avoid the proper name Yahweh, probably from motives of reverence. Here and there, however, the name Y...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This Psalm and Psalms 79 are closely connected in thought and language [37], and reflect the same historical situation. If they are not from the same pen, they must at least belong to the same period,...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 seat (a-27) Or 'in the company.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LXXIV. Two periods only in the history of the Jews offer possible place for the composition of this psalm — that immediately after the Chaldæan invasion, and that of the persecution under Antiochus Ep...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 74 MASCHIL OF ASAPH. Some think that Asaph, the penman of this psalm, was not the same that lived in the times of David, but some other of the same name, a descendant of his k,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 2989. B.C. 1015._ This Psalm seems to have been composed on occasion of the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Chaldeans. The author, after lamenting the calamities of his country,...

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