Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 78:31
Mightiest — The most healthy and strong, who probably were most desirous of this food, and fed most eagerly upon it.
Mightiest — The most healthy and strong, who probably were most desirous of this food, and fed most eagerly upon it.
THE WRATH OF GOD CAME UPON THEM - See Numbers 11:33. AND SLEW THE FATTEST OF THEM - literally, “slew among their fat ones.” That is, The most vigorous among them were cut down; the people most eminent...
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...
THE WRATH, &C. Compare John 3:36; Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 3:6....
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...
When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the lustiest of them, And laid low the young men of Israel. Even before they had been surfeited with the quails an allusion to Numbers 11:20...
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
Evidently from Numbers 11:33, _They did not yet loath in consequence of their lusts, the meat was yet in their mouths when,_ &c. For the expression, comp. the Latin _alienari ab aliqua re,_ to be disi...
SLEW THE FATTEST. — This may mean either the _strongest_ or the _noblest. _...
וְ אַ֤ף אֱלֹהִ֨ים ׀ עָ֘לָ֤ה בָהֶ֗ם וַֽ֭ יַּהֲ
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
BLESSED YET UNGRATEFUL Psalms 78:25 God our Father is prepared to do “exceeding abundantly” for His children; but too often we become so engrossed with His gifts as to forget and neglect the Giver. W...
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,...
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew (r) the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel. (r) Though others were not spared, yet chiefly they suffered, who trusted in their streng...
What gracious instructions are read to us in these verses! See, my soul, how unsuitable and self-destroying would prove thy desires in numberless instances, if the Lord, in anger, granted them to thy...
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...
THE WRATH OF GOD CAME UPON THEM,.... Either by causing fire to come down from heaven, or by suffering them to be surfeited by excessive eating, or by sending a plague among them; see Numbers 11:33, A...
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel. Ver. 31. _The wrath of God came upon them_] Heb. ascended, as a flame, which the bigger it gr...
_They were not estranged from their lust_, &c. Green translates the verse, _But before they were averse to what they had desired, and while their meat was still in their mouths, the wrath of God_, &c....
the wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest of them, those physically in the best condition, AND SMOTE DOWN THE CHOSEN MEN OF ISRAEL, those in the fullness of their strength, Numbers 11:33....
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
SMOTE DOWN: _ Heb._ made to bow CHOSEN MEN: Or, young men...
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...
THE FATTEST OF THEM; the most healthy and strong, who probably were most desirous of this food, and fed most eagerly upon it, and grew fatter by it, and least suspected their own danger....
Psalms 78:31 wrath H639 God H430 came H5927 (H8804) slew H2026 (H8799) stoutest H4924 down H3766 ...
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...
_They were not estranged from their lust._ DISSATISFACTION WITH PLENTY God gave them plenty, and they ate “and were filled.” He gave them what they sought, flesh; feathered birds came in abundance....
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...
Psalms 78:63...