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 equipped as bowmen, yet were faithless. This is transferred to the moral application.
Verse Psalms 78:9. _THE CHILDREN OF EPHRAIM - TURNED BACK_] This refers to some defeat of the Ephraimites; and some think to that by the _men_ _of Gath_, mentioned 1 Chronicles 7:21. R. D. _Kimchi_ s...
THE CHILDREN OF EPHRAIM - The sons of Ephraim; that is, the descendants of Ephraim; the tribe of Ephraim. Ephraim was one of the “largest” of the tribes of Israel, and was the “chief” tribe in the reb...
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...
This verse presents serious difficulties. (1) It seems to speak of some well-known act of cowardice on the part of the Ephraimites. But why should cowardice in war be censured, when it is disloyalty t...
Israel's disobedience and ingratitude, in spite of all God's mercies to them at the Exodus and in the wilderness....
THE CHILDREN OF EPHRAIM, &C.— _The sons of Ephraim, who were armed with the bow, were put to flight in the day of battle;_ Psalms 78:10 _because he kept not,_ &c. Green: who renders the 12th and follo...
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:...
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. -The Israelites failed to realize the high destination which was the very object for which God called them...
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...
This v. does not refer to a particular incident, but is a general figurative description of Ephraim's opportunity and failure, anticipating what is said in Psalms 78:67. Even before the revolt of Jero...
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
ARMED, AND CARRYING BOWS. — Following Jeremiah 4:29, and from analogy with Jeremiah 44:9 (“handle and bend the bow”) we get as literal rendering of the Hebrew here, _drawing and shooting with the bow....
בְּֽנֵי ־אֶפְרַ֗יִם נֹושְׁקֵ֥י רֹומֵי ־קָ֑שֶׁת הָ֝פְכ֗וּ...
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
LEARNING FROM THE FATHERS Psalms 78:1 This psalm is said to have arisen, from a strong controversy between Judah and Ephraim as to the location of God's sanctuary, and its final transfer within the l...
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,...
The children of (h) Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. (h) By Ephraim he means also the rest of the tribes, because they were most in number: whose punishm...
_Help. The necessity of grace, and the co-operation of free-will, are here plainly asserted. (St. Augustine)_...
We need only refer to the history of Israel in the wilderness, to discover to what particular period of the church the prophet in these verses refers. Perhaps, as in several other parts of scripture,...
9._The children of Ephraim being armed, and shooting with the bow. _The sacred writer sets before us an example of this unfaithfulness in the children of Ephraim. As those who are pertinaciously set u...
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...
THE CHILDREN OF EPHRAIM BEING ARMED, AND CARRYING BOWS,.... Or "casting" arrows out of the "bow" a; they went out well armed to meet the enemy, and they trusted in their armour, and not in the Lord; a...
The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. Ver. 9. _The children of Ephraim being armed, &c._] This the Rabbis interpret of eight thousand Ephraimi...
_The children of Ephraim, being armed, turned back in the day of battle_ “This defeat of the Ephraimites,” says Dr. Hammond, from Kimchi, “was in the desert: and although the story be not mentioned in...
A REVIEW OF ISRAEL'S HISTORY AS A SOURCE OF CONSOLATION. Maschil of Asaph, a didactic poem, intended to instruct the children of Israel in the wonderful ways of the Lord and to warn them against apos...
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, fully equipped for battle, TURNED BACK IN THE DAY OF BATTLE; although this tribe possessed the privileges, and therefore should have fulfilled t...
CARRYING: _ Heb._ throwing forth...
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...
THE CHILDREN OF EPHRAIM: this passage concerns, either, 1. The tribe of Ephraim, and some exploit of theirs, wherein they met with this disaster; whether it were that mentioned 1 CHRONICLES 7:21, or s...
Psalms 78:9 children H1121 Ephraim H669 armed H5401 (H8802) carrying H7411 (H8802) bows H7198 back H2015 ...
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...
_The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle._ GOD IN HUMAN HISTORY I. A people is a community that are most favoured with privileges are oftentimes the...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:9 The first historical section recounts an otherwise unknown incident in which THE EPHRAIMITES... TURNED BACK ON THE DAY OF BATTLE. Presumably this was a battle in which all Is...
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 31:1; 1 Samuel 4:10; Deuteronomy 1:41; Joshua 17:16; Ju
Ephraim — That Ephraim is here put for all Israel seems evident from the following verses, wherein the sins, upon which this overthrow is charged, are manifestly the sins of all the children of Israel...