TITLE. MASCBIL. Instruction. The tenth of thirteen so named. See note on Title, Psalms 82, and App-65. OF ASAPH. by, or for Asaph. Asaph was. "seer" or prophet (2 Chronicles 29:30). This Psalm is concerning the choosing. site for the Sanctuary. The seventh of the twelve Asaph Psalms. App-63. EARS.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL OPEN, &C. Quoted in Matthew 13:35. PARABLE... DARK SAYINGS. Compare Psalms 49:5. Same words. The Psalm has. moral: showing that Divine history contains more than appears on the surface.... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOWN. come to know.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons. SHEWING. Recounting. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. WONDERFUL WORKS. wonders. Compare Psalms 77:11; Psalms 77:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
COMMANDED OUR FATHERS. Compare Exodus 10:2; Exodus 12:26; Exodus 12:27; Exodus 13:8; Exodus 13:14; Exodus 13:15.Deuteronomy 4:9; Deuteronomy 6:7; Deuteronomy 6:20, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. GOD. Hebrew El. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
REBELLIOUS. Compare Deuteronomy 9:24; Deuteronomy 31:27. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. WITH. Some codices, with six early printed editions, read "toward".... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHRAIM. The mention of Ephraim is not "perplexing". See explanation in next verse, and in the events of Judges 12:1. Jdg 12:17, Jdg 12:18: viz. the introduction of idolatry. It is sin which is spoken of. See Psalms 78:57, "deceitful bow". Compare Hosea 7:16; Hosea 10:6. CARRYING BOWS: i.e. though... [ Continue Reading ]
KEPT NOT. See note on Psalms 78:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
ZOAN. See note on Exodus 1:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
DIVIDED. Compare Exodus 14:21. AS AN HEAP. Compare Exodus 14:22; Exodus 15:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
LED THEM. Compare Exodus 13:21; Exodus 14:24. and note the correspondence of 13-16 with 52-55, in the Structure above.... [ Continue Reading ]
CLAVE. Hebrew. _baka'_ (in Piel), implying repeated cleaving. ROCKS. Hebrew. _zur._ Same word as in Exodus 17. The two events brought together here. DRINK AS OUT OF. Some codices, with seven early printed editions, read "drink in the".... [ Continue Reading ]
SINNED. Hebrew. _chata'._ t HE MOST HIGH. Hebrew. _Elyon._ App-4. Compare Psalms 78:35, and Psalms 77:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
LUST. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPAKE AGAINST. Compare Numbers 11:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRUSTED NOT. confided not. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69.... [ Continue Reading ]
CLOUDS. skies. OPENED THE DOORS. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. Compare Genesis 7:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
MANNA. Bread; not "the drops of the tarfu or tamarisk tree", as alleged. See John 6:31; John 6:49. OF HEAVEN: i.e. from heaven; not from trees.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANGELS' FOOD. bread of the mighty ones. Septuagint, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic, with Targums, render it "bread of angels". The "of" may be Genitive of Agent. See App-17.... [ Continue Reading ]
RAINED. As in Psalms 78:24. AS THE SAND. Figure of speech _Paroemia_. App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT ESTRANGED. not turned away from. THEIR LUST. What they had longed for.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WRATH, &C. Compare John 3:36; Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 3:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR ALL THIS. In, or amid all this.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN VANITY. in. breath. i.e. the whole generation of men quickly died out. Compare Numbers 14:29; Numbers 14:35; Numbers 26:64; Numbers 26:65.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HIGH GOD. Hebrew. _El 'Elyon_. = EL MOST HIGH. REDEEMER. Hebrew. _ga'al._ See note on Exodus 6:6; Exodus 13:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
TONGUES. Hebrew. tongue (singular)... [ Continue Reading ]
COVENANT. If that of Exodus 34:5, then note the reference to it in Psalms 78:38, below.... [ Continue Reading ]
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _avah_. App-44. DESTROYED. laid waste.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE REMEMBERED. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ Compare "They forgat", Psalms 78:11. FLESH. Compare Genesis 6:3; Genesis 8:21.Psalms 103:14. A WIND. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW OFT. Ten times at least in the first two years (Numbers 14:22).... [ Continue Reading ]
TURNED BACK: i.e. again and again. LIMITED. Hebrew. _tavah_, to set. mark (Ezekiel 9:4), the only other occurrence of the _Hiphil_. hence, to set. limit. THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. This title occurs only three times in the Psalms: here (Psalms 78:41); in the last Davidic Psalm of the second book (Psa... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY REMEMBERED NOT. Contrast Psalms 78:39, "He remembered". DELIVERED. Hebrew. _padah,_ as in Exodus 13:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIGNS IN EGYPT. The Psalm, verses: Psalms 78:44, does not profess to give. list of the "ten plagues"; so that there is no ground for the assumption as to only. "Jehovist" document being known to the writer. He selects according to his special purpose. He names the first and the last, and omits the t... [ Continue Reading ]
TURNED THEIR RIVERS. The first plague (Exodus 7:17, &c).... [ Continue Reading ]
FLIES. The fourth plague (Exodus 8:21). FROGS. The second plague (Exodus 8:5; Exodus 8:6).... [ Continue Reading ]
CATERPILLER. corn locust.. more specific word than Exodus 10:1. It occurs in Joel 1:4; Joel 2:25. LABOUR. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the fruit of labour.... [ Continue Reading ]
DESTROYED. killed. HAIL. The seventh plague (Exodus 9:18). FROST. Word occurs nowhere else. Probably. hailstones.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOT THUNDERBOLTS: or lightnings (Exodus 9:23).... [ Continue Reading ]
SENDING. letting loose. EVIL ANGELS. In distinction from "demons". Compare 1 Timothy 4:1, where both are mentioned. Compare Exodus 12:23; 2 Samuel 24:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE. pondered, or weighed. Compare Proverbs 4:26; Proverbs 5:6; Proverbs 5:21. Contrast Isaiah 26:7. SOUL. Hebrew. _n_ ephesh. App-13.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRENGTH. strengths (plural) Manly vigour. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the firstborn. Compare Genesis 49:3.Deuteronomy 21:17; Psalms 105:36. TABERNACLES. tents. Hebrew. _'ohel._ App-40. HAM. Egypt. Compare Psalms 105:23; Psalms 105:27; Psalms 106:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILDERNESS. Compare Isaiah 63:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
LED. gently led. compare verses: Psalms 78:13. OVERWHELMED. Compare Exodus 14:27; Exodus 15:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS SANCTUARY: i.e. Zion. See App-68. THIS MOUNTAIN: viz. the one in the writer's view; not in "the memory of an exile in Babylon".... [ Continue Reading ]
HEATHEN. nations. BY LINE. Sometimes this is put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for the inheritance itself which was measured off by it. Compare Psalms 19:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MOST HIGH. Hebrew. _'eth 'Elohim 'Elyon._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
TURNED BACK. See the Structure (17-20 and 56-58). A DECEITFUL BOW: disappointing the bowman. Compare Hosea 7:16. GRAVEN IMAGES. Same word as Deuteronomy 7:5. Includes all images, whether carved, graven, or molten.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN GOD HEARD THIS, HE. There is no "When" in the Hebrew Render: "God heard this, and He was wroth" HEARD. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
TABERNACLE. habitation. Hebrew. _mishkan._ App-40 (2). SHILOH. Compare Judges 18:1; Judges 18:31; 1 Samuel 4:3. MEN. Hebrew. _adam._... [ Continue Reading ]
STRENGTH. One of the names for the Ark of the Covenant (Compare Psalms 63:2; Psalms 132:8). See notes on Exodus 25:22; 1 Chronicles 13:3. GLORY. Another name for the Ark (1 Samuel 4:22).... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO THE SWORD. Compare 1 Samuel 4:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
WERE NOT GIVEN TO MARRIAGE. were not praised: i.e. had no marriage song.... [ Continue Reading ]
PRIESTS. Compare 1 Samuel 4:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD*. One of the 134 places where the _Sopherim_ changed "Jehovah" to "Adonai". See App-32. AS ONE OUT OF SLEEP. Supply _Ellipsis_ (App-6). "as one [awaketh] out of sleep".... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HINDER PARTS. rear, or backward.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHOSE NOT. Ephraim did not lose inheritance, but lost precedence, which was transferred to Judah.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH HE LOVED. The proof of which was the removal of the Ark to Zion.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIKE THE EARTH. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read (_Beth_. in) instead of (_Kaph_. like). "In the land".... [ Continue Reading ]
CHOSE DAVID. Compare 1 Samuel 16:11; 1 Samuel 16:12. This is the climax of the Psalm.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO FEED. To shepherd. TO FEED JACOB. Compare 2 Samuel 7:7; 2 Samuel 7:8. HIS PEOPLE. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "His servant". ISRAEL. Note the two names: Jacob, the natural seed; Israel, the spiritual seed. See notes on Genesis 32:28; Genesis 43:6; Genesis 45:26; Genesis 45:... [ Continue Reading ]
SKILFULNESS. discernment, or understanding.... [ Continue Reading ]