Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 78:45
Flies — These flies were doubtless extraordinary in their nature, and hurtful qualities. And the like is to be thought concerning the frogs.
Flies — These flies were doubtless extraordinary in their nature, and hurtful qualities. And the like is to be thought concerning the frogs.
Verse Psalms 78:45. _HE SENT - FLIES - AND FROGS_] See on Exodus 8:6; Exodus 8:24....
HE SENT DIVERS SORTS OF FLIES ... - The account of this plague is found in Exodus 8:24. The word there used is simply “swarm,” without indicating what the swarm was composed of. The rabbis explain the...
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...
FLIES. The fourth plague (Exodus 8:21). FROGS. The second plague (Exodus 8:5; Exodus 8:6)....
But as God multiplied His mercies, Israel multiplied its acts of rebellion: and in order to set the heinousness of their ingratitude in a still stronger light, the Psalmist goes back to recount the mi...
The fourth and second plagues, Exodus 8:20 ff., Exodus 8:1 ff. The word rendered _divers sorts of flies_, or, swarms of flies (R.V.), is used only with reference to this plague (Exodus 8;...
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:...
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! -The Israelites in the time of the Judges tempted God by forgetting His judgments in Egypt in Israel's behalf, which ar...
78:45 dog-flies (f-3) Or 'vermin;' but it is as in Exodus 8:21 ....
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...
DIVERS SORTS] RV'swarms.'...
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
DIVERS SORTS OF FLIES. — Better, simply _flies._ See Note Exodus 8:21. FROGS. — See Exodus 8:2, and _Bib. Ed.,_ iv. 145....
יְשַׁלַּ֬ח בָּהֶ֣ם עָ֭רֹב וַ יֹּאכְלֵ֑ם וּ֝ צ
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
“SIGNS IN EGYPT” Psalms 78:38 God takes into account the frailty and infirmity of our natures. _The Spirit… helpeth our infirmities_, Romans 8:26. In the words of Hosea, God teaches us “to go;” that...
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,...
He sent (b) divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. (b) This word signifies a confused mixture of flies and venomous worms. Some take it for all sorts...
Here, by way of remembrance, the prophet carries back the subject to the period of the church's deliverance at the time of the Egyptian bondage, and gives some of the striking examples of the Lord's d...
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...
HE SENT DIVERS SORTS OF FLIES AMONG THEM,.... This was the fourth plague; see Exodus 8:24, the word signifies a "mixture" f, and the Targum renders it "a mixture of wild beasts;'' so Josephus g unde...
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. Ver. 45. _He sent divers sorts of flies among them_] _Miscellam muscarum venenatarum,_ venomous flies a...
_How he had wrought his signs in Egypt_ Here the Psalm goes back to the subject of Israelitish ingratitude, (mentioned Psalms 78:11,) in order to introduce an account of the miracles wrought in Egypt...
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, the insect pests of the fourth plague, Exodus 8:21, WHICH DEVOURED THEM, AND FROGS, in the second plague, Exodus 8:2, WHICH DESTROYED THEM....
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
40-55. Let not those that receive mercy from God, be thereby made bold to sin, for the mercies they receive will hasten its punishment; yet let not those who are under Divine rebukes for sin, be disc...
DEVOURED THEM; or, _destroyed them_; which they might do by their cruel and numerous stings, for these flies were doubtless extraordinary in their nature and quantity, and poisonous and hurtful qualit...
Psalms 78:45 sent H7971 (H8762) flies H6157 devoured H398 (H8799) frogs H6854 destroyed H7843 (H8686)...
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...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:40 The next section goes back to the exodus, describing all the plagues God brought against the Egyptian oppressors (vv. Psalms 78:42). This is followed by a brief summary of
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...
Exodus 8:21; Exodus 8:2; Psalms 105:30; Psalms 105:31; Revelation