Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 78:57
Deceitful bow — Which either breaks when it is drawn, or shoots awry, and frustrates the archer's expectation.
Deceitful bow — Which either breaks when it is drawn, or shoots awry, and frustrates the archer's expectation.
Verse Psalms 78:57. _THEY WERE TURNED ASIDE LIKE A DECEITFUL BOW._] The eastern bow, which when at rest is in the form of a [curved figure 'C'], must be _recurved_, or _turned the contrary way_, in o...
BUT TURNED BACK ... - See the notes at Psalms 78:41. THEY WERE TURNED ASIDE LIKE A DECEITFUL BOW - literally, a bow of deceit. That is, a bow that could not be depended on; a bow, one of whose arms wa...
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...
TURNED BACK. See the Structure (17-20 and 56-58). A DECEITFUL BOW: disappointing the bowman. Compare Hosea 7:16. GRAVEN IMAGES. Same word as Deuteronomy 7:5. Includes all images, whether carved, gra...
The unfaithfulness of Israel in Canaan during the period of the Judges....
_unfaithfully_ Or, as R.V., treacherously. Cp. Hosea 5:7; Hosea 6:7. _like a deceitful bow_ Which misses the mark and disappoints its owner. Cp. Hosea 7:16....
THEY WERE TURNED ASIDE, &C.— This is explained by Psalms 78:9 where the same word is used. The _bow_ means a body of bowmen, who in the crisis of battle, like the Ephraimites above, either turn their...
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:...
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: -Israel's unfaithfulness in the time of the Judges caused God to forsake the tabernacle of Shiloh, and brought down ot...
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...
UNFAITHFULLY] RV 'treacherously.' A DECEITFUL BOW] which causes the archer to miss the mark (Hosea 7:16)....
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
TURNED ASIDE... — Better, _turned like a relaxed bow._ (See Note to Psalms 78:9.) The bows of the Hebrews, like those of other ancient nations, were probably, when unstrung, bent the reverse way to th...
וַ יִּסֹּ֣גוּ וַֽ֭ יִּבְגְּדוּ כַּ אֲבֹותָ֑ם...
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,...
But turned back, and dealt (i) unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. (i) Nothing more displeases God in the children, than when they continue in that wickednes...
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...
BUT TURNED BACK,.... From God and his worship, apostatized from the true religion, and turned to idols: AND DEALT UNFAITHFULLY, LIKE THEIR FATHERS; in the wilderness; see Psalms 78:8, THEY WERE TUR...
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. Ver. 57. _But turned back, &c._] They had a kind of willingness and velleity, a kind of wambli...
_And dealt unfaithfully like their fathers_ They imitated their forefathers, both in their frequent apostacies from God, and in their falseness to their promises, when they pretended to repent of them...
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
but turned back, aside from the prescribed path, AND DEALT UNFAITHFULLY LIKE THEIR FATHERS, they apostatized from their promised loyalty to Jehovah; THEY WERE TURNED ASIDE LIKE A DECEITFUL BOW, one wh...
56-72 After the Israelites were settled in Canaan, the children were like their fathers. God gave them his testimonies, but they turned back. Presumptuous sins render even Israelites hateful to God's...
Which either breaketh when it is drawn, or shooteth awry, and frustrateth the archer's design and expectation So when they pretended, and both God and men expected, obedience and gratitude to their gr...
Psalms 78:57 back H5472 (H8735) unfaithfully H898 (H8799) fathers H1 aside H2015 (H8738) deceitful H7423 bow...
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 kept not His testimonies: but turned back, and dealt unfaithfully their fathers._ THE DECEITFULNESS OF THE HEART AS TO DUTY I. As to the performance of duty, the heart discovers its power of de...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:56 These verses describe the time of the judges, leading up to the capture of the ark and the death of Eli and his sons (vv. Psalms 78:60; see...
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...
Ezekiel 20:27; Ezekiel 20:28; Hosea 7:16; Judges 3:12; Judges 3:5;...