Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 78:17
Wilderness — Where they had such singular obligations to obedience. This was a great aggravation of their sins.
Wilderness — Where they had such singular obligations to obedience. This was a great aggravation of their sins.
AND THEY SINNED YET MORE AGAINST HIM - literally, “They added to sin against him.” The idea is, that his mercies, and the proofs of his presence were only made the occasion of greater sin on their par...
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...
SINNED. Hebrew. _chata'._ t HE MOST HIGH. Hebrew. _Elyon._ App-4. Compare Psalms 78:35, and Psalms 77:10....
Yet went they on still to sin against him, Rebelling against the Most High in the land of drought. Both the occasions referred to in Psalms 78:15 were connected with murmuring. The names of _Massah_...
In spite of these miracles of mercy they sinned yet more, and tempted God in their unbelief, so that while He supplied their wants He was compelled to punish them for their sin. The order is logical n...
AND THEY SINNED YET MORE— _Yet they sinned still more._...
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:...
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. -The unbelief of the Israelite fathers is detailed as a sad contrast to God's marvels performed i...
78:17 provoking (d-9) Or 'rebelling against;' and so ver. 40....
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
THEY SINNED YET MORE AND MORE. — This implies the discontent which had already shown itself before the miraculous supply of water....
וַ יֹּוסִ֣יפוּ עֹ֖וד לַ חֲטֹא ־לֹ֑ו לַֽ
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
“A TABLE IN THE WILDERNESS” Psalms 78:13 Throughout this wonderful recital there is a perpetual contrast between God's unswerving goodness and the incessant backsliding of His people; and as we read...
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,...
And they (k) sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. (k) Their wicked malice could be overcome by no benefits, which were great and many....
Here we have a full representation of Israel's unworthiness, as the preceding verses gave us a short relation of God's mercy. Reader, had you and I been present when, at the lifting up of the rod of M...
17._Yet they continued still to sin against him. _The prophet, having briefly declared how God, by a continual succession of benefits, had clearly manifested the greatness of his love towards the chil...
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...
AND THEY SINNED YET MORE AGAINST HIM,.... Or, "and they added yet to sin against him" c; which was great ingratitude; they had sinned before, and it might have been hoped that the goodness of God to t...
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. Ver. 17. _And they sinned yet more against him_] The better he was to them the worse were they toward him, as if God...
_And they sinned yet more_ Hebrew, ויוסיפו עוד לחשׂאלו, _They added yet to sin against him._ All these miraculous works did not alter their depraved nature; but it broke out into new and greater provo...
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
And they sinned yet more against Him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness, with their continual rebellious murmurings....
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...
Where they had such strong and singular obligations to obedience, both from the great things which God had then and there done for them, and from their dependence upon God's favour and help for their...
Psalms 78:17 sinned H2398 (H8800) more H3254 (H8686) rebelling H4784 (H8687) High H5945 wilderness H6723...
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 they sinned yet more against Him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness._ SIN MULTIPLYING WITH MERCIES The more copiously the showers of mercies fell upon the Jew in the wilderness, the m...
_The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle._ GOD IN HUMAN HISTORY I. A people is a community that are most favoured with privileges are oftentimes the...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:17 In spite of the deeds the people had seen, YET THEY SINNED STILL MORE AGAINST God. ⇐...
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 9:12; Deuteronomy 9:8; Hebrews 3:16; Psalms 106:13;...