Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 78:67
Refused — He would not have his ark to abide any longer in the tabernacle of Shiloh, which was in the tribe of Joseph or Ephraim.
Refused — He would not have his ark to abide any longer in the tabernacle of Shiloh, which was in the tribe of Joseph or Ephraim.
Verse Psalms 78:67. _HE REFUSED THE TABERNACLE OF JOSEPH_] Psalms 78:60....
MOREOVER, HE REFUSED THE TABERNACLE OF JOSEPH - As a place where his worship should be celebrated. This is the completion of the statement in Psalms 78:60. The design is to show that there had been a...
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...
CHOSE NOT. Ephraim did not lose inheritance, but lost precedence, which was transferred to Judah....
_Moreover_&c. And he rejected the tent of Joseph, i.e. Shiloh in the tribe of Ephraim. The Ark was never brought back there, and if Shiloh was not actually destroyed by the Philistines, it ceased to b...
The choice of Zion....
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...
JOSEPH.. EPHRAIM] Joseph was the father of Ephraim. Both names are used for the northern kingdom as a whole. Shiloh, where the ark had been, was in the territory of Ephraim. Now it was taken to Zion....
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
וַ֭ יִּמְאַס בְּ אֹ֣הֶל יֹוסֵ֑ף וּֽ בְ
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,...
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of (r) Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: (r) Showing that he did not spare the Israelites altogether, though he punished their enemies....
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...
67._And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph. _Those who suppose that the word _enemies, _in the 66th verse, applies to the Israelites, connect these verses with the preceding, and suppose the meaning...
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...
MOREOVER, HE REFUSED THE TABERNACLE OF JOSEPH,.... That is, the tabernacle of Moses, which had been for a long time at Shiloh, a city in the tribe of Ephraim, the son of Joseph; when the ark was broug...
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: Ver. 67. _Moreover he refused, &c._] He would dwell no longer at Shiloh, which was in the tribe of Ephraim....
_Moreover_ And as he smote his enemies for their sins, so he punished his own people for the same cause. _He refused the tabernacle of Joseph_ He did not suffer his ark to return to Shiloh, which was...
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
Moreover, He refused the Tabernacle of Joseph, taking it away from Shiloh, in the midst of the tribe of Ephraim, AND CHOSE NOT THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM,...
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...
MOREOVER; and as he smote his enemies for their sins, so he punished his own people for the same cause. HE REFUSED THE TABERNACLE OF JOSEPH; either, 1. He rejected the kingdom of the ten tribes, wher...
Psalms 78:67 rejected H3988 (H8799) tent H168 Joseph H3130 choose H977 (H8804) tribe H7626 Ephraim H669...
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 6:21; 1 Samuel 7:1; 2 Samuel 6:17; 2 Samuel 6:2...