Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 78:54
Holy place — The land of Canaan, separated by God from all other lands. Mountain — The mountainous country of Canaan; the word mountain is often used in scripture for a mountainous country.
Holy place — The land of Canaan, separated by God from all other lands. Mountain — The mountainous country of Canaan; the word mountain is often used in scripture for a mountainous country.
Verse Psalms 78:54. _THE BORDER OF HIS SANCTUARY_] קדשו _kodsho_, "of his holy place," that is, the _land of Canaan_, called afterwards _the_ _mountain_ which _his right hand had purchased_; because i...
AND HE BROUGHT THEM TO THE BORDER OF HIS SANCTUARY - The Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate render this, “to the mountain of his holiness”; that is, his holy mountain. But the reference is rather to 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...
HIS SANCTUARY: i.e. Zion. See App-68. THIS MOUNTAIN: viz. the one in the writer's view; not in "the memory of an exile in Babylon"....
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...
God's guidance of Israel through the wilderness into Canaan. Cp. Exodus 15:13-17. The circumstances of the Journey have been already recounted in Psalms 78:13 ff....
_The border of his sanctuary_may mean the land of Canaan, as that in which He purposed to place His temple, and _this mountain_may denote Mount Zion. But it is preferable to render to his holy border,...
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...
SANCTUARY] the land of Canaan, as sacred to God. THIS MOUNTAIN] the mountain land of Canaan: cp. Exodus 15:17....
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
THIS MOUNTAIN — _i.e._, Zion, though from its apposition to _border_ some prefer to take it of all the mountain country of Judæa. PURCHASED. — Rather, _acquired. _...
וַ֭ יְבִיאֵם אֶל ־גְּב֣וּל קָדְשֹׁ֑ו הַר ־זֶ֝
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
SAFELY LED, YET BENT ON WANDERING Psalms 78:49 This section of the psalm deals largely with the books of Joshua and Judges. The failures that had characterized the Wilderness crossed the Jordan with...
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 he brought them to the border of his (h) sanctuary, [even to] this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased. (h) Meaning, Canaan, which God had consecrated to himself and appointed to his p...
Here a sweet contrast is drawn, in the view of divine love and compassion, notwithstanding human ingratitude. The sacred writer takes up the subject in tracing the history of the church even into Cana...
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 HE BROUGHT THEM TO THE BORDER OF HIS SANCTUARY,.... Of the land of Canaan, which the Lord had sanctified, and set apart for them; and of Jerusalem, the holy city, the city of the great God, and of...
_And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, [even to] this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased._ Ver. 54. _And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary_] _i.e._ Of Judea, wh...
_But made his own people go out like sheep_ Distinguishing between them and the Egyptians, _as a shepherd divideth between the sheep and the goats_, having set his own mark upon these sheep, by the bl...
And He brought them to the border of His Sanctuary, literally, "to the boundary of His holiness," the region or land in which His holiness was to rule, EVEN TO THIS MOUNTAIN, WHICH HIS RIGHT HAND HAD...
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...
OF HIS SANCTUARY; or, _of his holiness_, or his holy place i.e. the land of Canaan, which is so called, EZRA 9:8 MALACHI 2:12, &c., as being separated by God from all other lands for his people and se...
Psalms 78:54 brought H935 (H8686) holy H6944 border H1366 mountain H2022 hand H3225 acquired H7069 (H8804)...
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...
Daniel 11:45; Daniel 9:16; Ephesians 1:14; Exodus 15:13; Exodus 15:17