Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 78:18
Tempted — Desired a proof of God's power. Lust — Not for their necessary subsistence, but out of an inordinate and luxurious appetite.
Tempted — Desired a proof of God's power. Lust — Not for their necessary subsistence, but out of an inordinate and luxurious appetite.
Verse Psalms 78:18. _BY ASKING MEAT FOR THEIR LUST._] לנפשם _lenaphsham_, "for their souls," i.e., _for their lives_; for they said in their hearts that the _light bread_, the _manna_, was not suffic...
AND THEY TEMPTED GOD IN THEIR HEART - Exodus 16:2. The heart was the source of the evil. They were not satisfied with what he gave them. They asked for that which would be more agreeable to them, and...
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...
LUST. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
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...
_by asking_&c. By asking food for their appetite: a different word from that rendered _lust_in Psalms 78:30. The allusion is not to the demand for flesh, but to the doubt whether God could provide foo...
BY ASKING MEAT FOR THEIR LUST— See Hasselquist's Travels, p. 290....
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...
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 יְנַסּוּ ־אֵ֥ל בִּ לְבָבָ֑ם לִֽ שְׁאָל
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 tempted God in their heart by (l) asking meat for their lust. (l) Then to require more than is necessary, and to separate God's power from his will, is to tempt God....
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...
18._And they tempted God in their heart. _This is the provocation of which mention is made in the preceding verse. Not that it was unlawful for them simply to ask food, when constrained to do so by th...
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 TEMPTED GOD IN THEIR HEART,.... Which is desperately wicked, and from whence all impiety flows; they entertained hard thoughts of God; they inwardly fretted at their present circumstances, an...
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. Ver. 18. _And they tempted God in their heart_] In their hearts first, but afterwards also with their lips. The psalmist here strike...
_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 tempted God in their heart, Matthew 15:19, BY ASKING MEAT FOR THEIR LUST, when they declared that their soul loathed the very sight of the manna, Numbers 11:4....
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...
TEMPTED; desired a trial and proof of God's power, as the next verse plainly showeth. See NUMBERS 11:4. FOR THEIR LUST; not for their necessary subsistence, for which they had manna, but out of an ino...
Psalms 78:18 tested H5254 (H8762) God H410 heart H3824 asking H7592 (H8800) food H400 fancy H5315 by
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 tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust._ THE CONDUCT OF GOD TOWARDS THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD’S CONDUCT TO HIM I. God’s dispensations towards depraved man. 1. Wonderful me...
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...
1 Corinthians 10:6; Exodus 16:2; Exodus 16:3; James 4:2; James 4:3;...