Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 78:1
For the formal opening see Psalms 49:1, Note.
My people. — An expression pointing to a position of weight and authority.
My law. — Here, rather instruction, or doctrine.
For the formal opening see Psalms 49:1, Note.
My people. — An expression pointing to a position of weight and authority.
My law. — Here, rather instruction, or doctrine.
PSALM LXXVIII _An enumeration of the principal effects of the goodness of God_ _to his people_, 1-16; _of their rebellions and punishment_, 17-33; _their feigned repentance_, 34-37; _God's compas...
GIVE EAR, O MY PEOPLE - This is not an address of God, but an address of the king or ruler of the people, calling their attention to an important subject; to wit, his right to rule over them, or showi...
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...
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 con...
Cp. the opening of Psalms 49, noting that while there -all peoples" are addressed, in accordance with the wider scope of the teaching of the -Wise Men," here Israel is addressed in the spirit of proph...
The Psalmist's solemn invitation to his countrymen to listen to his teaching. He proposes to set forth the lessons to be drawn from Israel's past history, in obedience to God's command to hand on the...
_An exhortation both to learn and to preach the law of God. The history of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient. The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David._ Masch...
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:...
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. Psalms 78:1.-God's address, through Asaph, to Israel to hear His law and His parabolic instruction. His past dealings w...
LAW] RM 'teaching.'...
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...
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
מַשְׂכִּ֗יל לְ אָ֫סָ֥ף הַאֲזִ֣ינָה עַ֭מִּי תֹּורָתִ֑י...
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,...
" (a) Maschil of Asaph." Give ear, O my people, [to] my (b) law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. (a) Read (Psalms 32:1). (b) The prophet under the name of a teacher calls the people his,...
Asaph, who might live during the captivity. (Calmet) --- If the ancient (Haydock) Asaph, or David, composed this psalm, it must be considered a prediction of the ruin caused by Nabuchodonosor, or by E...
CONTENTS This Psalm, as the title sets forth, is a Maschil, that is, a Psalm of instruction. It contains, in an historical method of relation, God's gracious dealings with Israel as a people. In read...
1._Give ear, O my people! to my law. _From the close of the psalm, it may with probability be conjectured, that it was written long after the death of David; for there we have celebrated the kingdom e...
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...
GIVE EAR, O MY PEOPLE,.... The Jews were Christ's people, he descending from their fathers according to the flesh; they were his own, to whom he came, though rejected by them; they were his nation and...
Psalms 78:1 «Maschil of Asaph. » Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. _Maschil of Asaph_] _Ode didasealiea Asaphi._ The six first verses are proemial, wooin...
_Give ear, O my people_ In these words “the psalmist opens his commission, and speaks as one having authority from above to instruct the world. He demands a large and attentive audience, while, by a s...
Give ear, O my people, to my law, the religious teacher calling attention to his instruction which he is now about to begin; INCLINE YOUR EARS TO THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH, in the attitude of most careful...
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...
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...
PSALM 78 THE ARGUMENT The scope of this Psalm is plainly expressed PSALMS 78:6, and is this, that the Israelites might learn to hope and trust in God, and steadfastly to keep his laws and covenant; wh...
Psalms 78:1 Contemplation H4905 (H8688) Asaph H623 ear H238 (H8685) people H5971 law H8451 Incline H5186 ...
MASCHIL Maschil, instruction....
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...
_Give ear, O My people, to My law; incline your ears to the words of My mouth._ THE OBLIGATION TO OBEY GOD’S LAW I. It is the law of your nature. The foundation of morality is laid deep in human nat...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
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...
2 Chronicles 16:14; Isaiah 51:4; Isaiah 55:3; Judges 5:3; Matthew 13:9
My law — The doctrine which I am about to deliver....