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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 ...
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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...
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NOT ESTRANGED. not turned away from.
THEIR LUST. What they had longed for....
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In spite of these miracles of mercy they sinned yet more, and tempted
God in their unbelief, so that while He supplied their wants He was
compelled to punish them for their sin. The order is logical n...
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They were not estranged from their lust,
Their food was yet in their mouth,...
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THEY WERE NOT ESTRANGED FROM THEIR HOST— _But before they were
averse to what they had desired, and while their meat was still in
their mouths, the wrath of God,_ &c. Green: who, instead of the
_fatte...
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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:...
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Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land
of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
-The unbelief of the Israelite fathers is detailed as a sad contrast
to God's marvels performed i...
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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...
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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
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Evidently from Numbers 11:33, _They did not yet loath in consequence
of their lusts, the meat was yet in their mouths when,_ &c. For the
expression, comp. the Latin _alienari ab aliqua re,_ to be disi...
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לֹא ־זָר֥וּ מִ תַּאֲוָתָ֑ם עֹ֝֗וד
אָכְלָ֥ם בּ
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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
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BLESSED YET UNGRATEFUL
Psalms 78:25
God our Father is prepared to do “exceeding abundantly” for His
children; but too often we become so engrossed with His gifts as to
forget and neglect the Giver. W...
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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,...
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They were not estranged from their (q) lust. But while their meat
[was] yet in their mouths,
(q) Such is the nature of concupiscence, that the more it has the more
it lusts....
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What gracious instructions are read to us in these verses! See, my
soul, how unsuitable and self-destroying would prove thy desires in
numberless instances, if the Lord, in anger, granted them to thy...
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The Psalmist expresses this still more clearly, by adding immediately
after, (verses 30, 31,) that this pampering proved fatal to them, as
if with the meat they had swallowed the flame of the divine w...
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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...
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THEY WERE NOT ESTRANGED FROM THEIR LUST,.... By the goodness and
liberality of God unto them, they were not brought to repentance for
their sin of lusting; nor did they abstain from their fleshly lust...
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They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat [was]
yet in their mouths,
Ver. 30. _They were not estranged from their lust_] Satiated they
were, but not satisfied. It is as easy to qu...
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_They were not estranged from their lust_, &c. Green translates the
verse, _But before they were averse to what they had desired, and
while their meat was still in their mouths, the wrath of God_, &c....
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The Narrative of God's Deeds...
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They were not estranged from their lust, they were still indulging
their desire to the full; BUT WHILE THEIR MEAT WAS YET IN THEIR
MOUTHS,...
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1-8 These are called dark and deep sayings, because they are
carefully to be looked into. The law of God was given with a
particular charge to teach it diligently to their children, that the
church m...
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The sense is either,
1. Whilst their greedy appetite yet continued, and was not fully
satisfied, before, they began to loathe it, as they did afterwards,
NUMBERS 11:20. Or,
2. Before they were depriv...
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Psalms 78:30 deprived H2114 (H8804) craving H8378 food H400 mouths
H6310
But - Numbers 11:33-34,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_They were not estranged from their lust._
DISSATISFACTION WITH PLENTY
God gave them plenty, and they ate “and were filled.” He gave them
what they sought, flesh; feathered birds came in abundance....
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare
Psalms 105:1; P
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:17 In spite of the deeds the people had
seen, YET THEY SINNED STILL MORE AGAINST God.
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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_.—...
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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...
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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...
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Luke 16:19; Numbers 11:33; Numbers 11:34; Numbers 22:20; Proverbs