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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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The unfaithfulness of Israel in Canaan during the period of the
Judges....
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They provoked Jehovah, the "jealous God" Who can tolerate no rival
(Exodus 20:5), by their adoption of Canaanite idolatries. Cp.
Deuteronomy 32:16; Deuteronomy 32:21....
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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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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...
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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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וַ יַּכְעִיס֥וּהוּ בְּ בָמֹותָ֑ם וּ֝
בִ פְסִי
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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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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...
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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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For they (k) provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved
him to jealousy with their graven images.
(k) By serving God other than he had appointed....
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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...
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58._And they provoked him to anger with their high places. _We have
here adduced the species of defection by which the Israelites afforded
incontestable evidence that they refused to be faithful to Go...
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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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FOR THEY PROVOKED HIM TO ANGER WITH THEIR HIGH PLACES,.... Which they
built to Baal, and other Heathen dieties:
AND MOVED HIM TO JEALOUSY WITH THEIR GRAVEN IMAGES; which they
worshipped, see Judges 1...
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For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him
to jealousy with their graven images.
Ver. 58. _For they provoked him to anger with their high places_]
After the manner of the he...
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_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...
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The Narrative of God's Deeds...
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For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, the altars on
the hills devoted to idolatry, AND MOVED HIM TO JEALOUSY WITH THEIR
GRAVEN IMAGES, with the idols to which they turned in preferenc...
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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Psalms 78:58 anger H3707 (H8686) places H1116 jealousy H7065 (H8686)
images H6456
their high -...
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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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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 78:56 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...
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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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1 Corinthians 10:22; 1 Kings 11:10; 1 Kings 11:7; 1 Kings 12:31;...