Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 78:60
Shiloh — Which was placed in Shiloh. Among men — Whereby he insinuates both God's wonderful condescension, and their stupendous folly in despising so glorious a privilege.
Shiloh — Which was placed in Shiloh. Among men — Whereby he insinuates both God's wonderful condescension, and their stupendous folly in despising so glorious a privilege.
Verse Psalms 78:60. _HE FORSOOK THE TABERNACLE OF SHILOH_] The Lord, offended with the people, and principally with the _priests_, who had profaned his holy worship, gave up his ark into the hands of...
SO THAT HE FORSOOK THE TABERNACLE OF SHILOH - The tabernacle or tent which had been erected at Shiloh. He forsook that as a place where he was to be worshipped; that is, he caused his tabernacle, or h...
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...
TABERNACLE. habitation. Hebrew. _mishkan._ App-40 (2). SHILOH. Compare Judges 18:1; Judges 18:31; 1 Samuel 4:3. MEN. Hebrew. _adam._...
Once more therefore God punished them for their sins, abandoning them to their enemies and even suffering the Ark to be captured....
_placed_ Lit. _caused to dwell_. The use of this word here and in Joshua 18:1 (A.V. _set up_) was probably suggested by its frequent use with reference to the dwelling of God among His people. Cp. Jer...
SO THAT HE FORSOOK THE TABERNACLE— This relates to that part of the history of the Jews which is given 1 Samuel 4.; for, upon their sending for the ark of God from the tabernacle, in which it was depo...
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...
SHILOH] see on Judges 18:31; 1 Samuel 1:3; 1 Samuel 1:24; Jeremiah 7:12;...
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
FORSOOK. — The reference is of course to the disastrous defeat by the Philistines (1 Samuel 4). See especially Psalms 78:21 in connection with glory or _ornament_ as applied here to the Ark. For _stre...
וַ֭ יִּטֹּשׁ מִשְׁכַּ֣ן שִׁלֹ֑ו אֹ֝֗הֶל שִׁכֵּ֥ן...
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
GOD RAISES UP HIS SHEPHERD DAVID Psalms 78:59 This paragraph continues the history of the Judges, and tells the story of what befell after the battle in which Eli's sons were slain. See 1 Samuel 4:1....
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,...
So that he (l) forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men; (l) For their ingratitude he permitted the Philistines to take the Ark which was the sign of his presence, from...
God may be said to hear when the cry of a sinful land comes up before him for judgment. So in the case of Cain's murdering his brother: The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground....
After it is said that Israel, whom God had loved so much, was become an abomination in his sight, it is added, (verse 60,) that they were bereft of the presence of God, which is the only source of tru...
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...
SO THAT HE FORSOOK THE TABERNACLE OF SHILOH.... The tabernacle which Moses built in the wilderness by the command of the Lord, and according to the pattern showed him; and which, when the Israelites w...
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men; Ver. 60. _So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh_] Whither it had been brought from Gilgal, and where it had re...
_So he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh_ The tabernacle which then was placed in Shiloh, from whence, as the Israelites fetched the ark, so God withdrew himself. This relates to that part of the Jewis...
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
so that He forsook the Tabernacle of Shiloh, where it had first been erected after the conquest of the country, Joshua 18:1; THE TENT WHICH HE PLACED AMONG MEN, where He had promised to dwell and to r...
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...
THE TABERNACLE OF SHILOH; which then was placed in Shiloh, from whence, as the Israelites fetched the ark, so God withdrew himself. WHICH HE PLACED AMONG MEN; whereby he insinuates both God's wonderfu...
Psalms 78:60 forsook H5203 (H8799) tabernacle H4908 Shiloh H7887 tent H168 placed H7931 (H8765) men H120...
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 78:56 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...
1 Samuel 1:3; 1 Samuel 4:4; Jeremiah 26:6; Jeremiah 7:12; Joshua 18:1