Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 78:66
Smote — Them with the piles. Reproach — He caused them to perpetuate their own reproach by sending back the ark of God with their golden emrods, the lasting monuments of their shame.
Smote — Them with the piles. Reproach — He caused them to perpetuate their own reproach by sending back the ark of God with their golden emrods, the lasting monuments of their shame.
Verse Psalms 78:66. _HE SMOTE HIS ENEMIES IN THE HINDER PART_] This refers to the _hemorrhoids_ with which he afflicted the Philistines. See the note on 1 Samuel 5:6....
AND HE SMOTE HIS ENEMIES IN THE HINDER PART - From behind; that is, as they fled. There are two ideas here: one, that they fled at his approach, or turned their backs; the other, that as they fled, he...
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 HINDER PARTS. rear, or backward....
At length Jehovah took pity on His people, and delivered them from their adversaries....
_And he smote_&c. Render with R.V., And he smote his adversaries backward, a general allusion to the victories over the Philistines and other enemies of Israel under Samuel, Saul, and David. The A.V....
HE SMOTE HIS ENEMIES, &C.— This refers to the _emrods_ of the Philistines, which were _remembered to their everlasting disgrace,_ by the _golden ones_ which were kept ever after....
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:...
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. -Now Yahweh awakes as one out of sleep, and destroys His people's enemies, and restores the ark; but...
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...
IN THE HINDER PARTS] RV 'backward.'...
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
HE SMOTE. — Possibly an allusion to 1 Samuel 5:9, or else to the repeated defeats of the Philistines under Saul and David....
וַ יַּךְ ־צָרָ֥יו אָחֹ֑ור חֶרְפַּ֥ת עֹ֝ולָ֗ם...
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,...
The history of the church is pursued through all these verses. But we must look farther than the history, and particularly in the close of the Psalm, which ends with a view of David as the chosen of G...
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 SMOTE HIS ENEMIES IN THE HINDER PARTS,.... Not the Israelites, as Kimchi interprets it, but the Philistines, who in another battle were put to flight, and turned their backs, and so were smitte...
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. Ver. 66. _And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts_] viz. With emerods, 1 Samuel 5:6; 1 Samuel 5:9; 1 Samuel 5:1...
_Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep_, &c. “While, by his permission, the Philistines were chastising his people for their sins, he held his peace, and seemed unconcerned as one asleep: but when...
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
And He smote His enemies in the hinder parts, His blows raining down upon the backs, principally of the Philistines, who at that time were the chief enemies of Israel; HE PUT THEM TO A PERPETUAL REPRO...
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...
SMOTE HIS ENEMIES IN THE HINDER PART, with the disease of the emerods, which was both painful and shameful. He caused them to perpetuate their own reproach by sending back the ark of God with their go...
Psalms 78:66 beat H5221 (H8686) back H268 enemies H6862 put H5414 (H8804) perpetual H5769 reproach H2781...
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 78:65 God graciously answered Israel’s recurring pattern of sin by raising up David to be their king. THE LORD AWOKE AS FROM SLEEP. This is a bold image, conveying what the believ...
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 5:6; 1 Samuel 6:4; Jeremiah 23:40; Job 40:12...