Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 78:49
Evil angels. — So LXX. and Vulg., but in the Hebrew angels (or messengers) of ills (so Symmachus), with evident reference to the destruction of the firstborn.
Evil angels. — So LXX. and Vulg., but in the Hebrew angels (or messengers) of ills (so Symmachus), with evident reference to the destruction of the firstborn.
Verse Psalms 78:49. _BY SENDING EVIL ANGELS_] This is the first mention we have of _evil angels_. There is no mention of them in the account we have of the plagues of Egypt in the Book of Exodus, and...
HE CAST UPON THEM THE FIERCENESS OF HIS ANGER ... - This verse is designed to describe the last, and the most dreadful of the plagues that came upon the Egyptians, the slaying of their first-born; and...
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...
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....
But as God multiplied His mercies, Israel multiplied its acts of rebellion: and in order to set the heinousness of their ingratitude in a still stronger light, the Psalmist goes back to recount the mi...
_He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger_ Lit., _he sent_, as in Psalms 78:45. The same phrase is found in Job 20:23. by _sending evil angels_among them] R.V., a band of angels of evil: lit. _a...
The culmination of the plagues in the death of the firstborn....
BY SENDING EVIL ANGELS AMONG THEM— I join the latter end of this verse to the beginning of the next (says Mudge) in one sentence, which is a very noble one. _He nicely weighed or marked out a mission...
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:...
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! -The Israelites in the time of the Judges tempted God by forgetting His judgments in Egypt in Israel's behalf, which ar...
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...
BY SENDING EVIL ANGELS _among them_] RV 'aband of evil angels,' the disasters being personified as messengers of God....
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
יְשַׁלַּח ־בָּ֨ם ׀ חֲרֹ֬ון אַפֹּ֗ו עֶבְרָ֣ה וָ...
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
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...
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,...
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending (d) evil angels [among them]. (d) So called either for the effect, that is, of punishing the wicked: or...
Here, by way of remembrance, the prophet carries back the subject to the period of the church's deliverance at the time of the Egyptian bondage, and gives some of the striking examples of the Lord's d...
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...
HE CAST UPON THEM THE FIERCENESS OF HIS ANGER,.... This with the following words, WRATH, AND INDIGNATION, AND TROUBLE, are thought by some to intend the other plagues, which are not particularly ment...
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels [among them]. Ver. 49. _By sending evil angels among them_] _i.e._ Some messengers of his wr...
_He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger_ Anger in the highest degree, _wrath and indignation_, the cause, _and trouble_, (tribulation and anguish, Romans 2:8,) the effect. These he _cast upon t...
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
He cast upon them the fierceness of His anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them, that is, angels bringing all these misfortunes, destroying messengers of Jehovah....
40-55. Let not those that receive mercy from God, be thereby made bold to sin, for the mercies they receive will hasten its punishment; yet let not those who are under Divine rebukes for sin, be disc...
INDIGNATION AND TROUBLE; other most grievous plagues, which were mixed with and were the effects of his anger and wrath; whereby their miseries were greatly aggravated, and distinguished from the affl...
Psalms 78:49 cast H7971 (H8762) fierceness H2740 anger H639 Wrath H5678 indignation H2195 trouble H6869 sending H4917
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...
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...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:40 The next section goes back to the exodus, describing all the plagues God brought against the Egyptian oppressors (vv. Psalms 78:42). This is followed by a brief summary of
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 Kings 22:21; 1 Kings 22:22; Isaiah 42:25; Job 1:12; Job 2:6;...
Evil angels — Whom God employed in producing these plagues....