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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....
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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 HINDER PARTS. rear, or backward....
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At length Jehovah took pity on His people, and delivered them from
their adversaries....
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_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....
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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....
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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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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...
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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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IN THE HINDER PARTS] RV 'backward.'...
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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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HE SMOTE. — Possibly an allusion to 1 Samuel 5:9, or else to the
repeated defeats of the Philistines under Saul and David....
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וַ יַּךְ ־צָרָ֥יו אָחֹ֑ור חֶרְפַּ֥ת
עֹ֝ולָ֗ם...
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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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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....
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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The Narrative of God's Deeds...
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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...
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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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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...
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Psalms 78:66 beat H5221 (H8686) back H268 enemies H6862 put H5414
(H8804) perpetual H5769 reproach H2781...
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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 78:65 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...
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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 Samuel 5:6; 1 Samuel 6:4; Jeremiah 23:40; Job 40:12...
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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....