Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 106:28
They joined themselves also unto (o) Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the (p) dead.
(o) Which was the idol of the Moabites.
(p) Sacrifices offered to the dead idols.
They joined themselves also unto (o) Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the (p) dead.
(o) Which was the idol of the Moabites.
(p) Sacrifices offered to the dead idols.
Verse Psalms 106:28. _THEY JOINED THEMSELVES ALSO UNTO BAALPEOR_] The _Vulgate, Septuagint_, and others, have _Belphegor_; the _Syriac_ and _Arabic_, the _idol Phegor_, or _Phaaur_; the ע _ain_ in the...
THEY JOINED THEMSELVES ALSO UNTO BAAL-PEOR - They joined in their devotions, or, they shared in the rites of idolatrous worship. This occurred when they were in the regions of Moab, and on the very bo...
Psalms 105 AND 106 The Memories of the Past The last two Psalms of this fourth section review the entire history of Israel up to the time of the judges. It is the story of God's faithfulness and merc...
CVI. ISRAEL'S SIN. Psalms 106:1. Introduction. Praise to Yahweh for His power and greatness. The writer's desire to share in Israel's joy. PSALMS 106:3. HE THAT DOETH: read they that do. Psalms 106...
BAAL-PEOR. Compare Numbers 25:2; Numbers 25:3. THE DEAD. This pertains to necromancy, Compare Deuteronomy 18:11.Isaiah 8:19....
PSALMS 106 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Humbled Israel Confessing Her Sins as a Nation. ANALYSIS Enclosed within an Introduction of Praise and Prayer, Psalms 106:1-5, and a Conclusion of Prayer and Doxology,...
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: (1) The people's distrust of the Lord's word as to Canaan after hearing the spies' report (Psalms 106:24-19). (2) The sin of the n...
See Numbers 25:2; Hosea 9:10. THE DEAD] the lifeless heathen gods....
As Psalms 105 gives thanks for God's goodness, so Psalms 106 confesses Israel's sin and acknowledges God's mercy, both being illustrated in an historical retrospect from the deliverance from Egypt dow...
Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE *LORD IS GOOD! PSALMS 106 Jesus said, "Father, *forgive them. Because they do not know what they are doing". ...
(13-33) These twenty verses cover the desert wanderings, beginning with _the_ discontented spirit mentioned in Exodus 15:23....
ATE THE SACRIFICES OF THE DEAD — _i.e._, the sacrifices of a _dead_ divinity. Numbers 25:2, “and they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods,” shows that here we must not see any allusion...
(28-31) The licentious character of the cult of Baal-peor in Numbers 25 is expressed in the word “joined,” better, _yoked._ LXX. and Vulg., “were initiated,” _i.e.,_ by prostitution....
וַ֭ יִּצָּ֣מְדוּ לְ בַ֣עַל פְּעֹ֑ור וַ֝ יֹּאכְל֗וּ...
Psalms 106:1 THE history of God's past is a record of continuous mercies, the history of man's, one of as continuous sin. The memory of the former quickened the psalmist into his sunny song of thankfu...
JUDGMENT RESTRAINED BY INTERCESSION Psalms 106:16 The strife between the ungodly and the servants of God has characterized all the centuries. These verses record some of its phases. Moses is called G...
The previous psalm called the people to talk of the “marvellous works” of Jehovah. This one calls to praise, and the reason is that “His mercy endureth for ever.” This fact is then illustrated by a de...
For the same reason as before, I include the whole of what is here rehearsed in one reading. But let not the Reader be as brief upon the interesting things here recorded. Let him consult the several p...
28_And they joined themselves to Baal-peor _The prophet tells us that the Jews, after they had been threatened with very awful punishment, very soon fell into a new species of apostasy. Some think, th...
Psalms 106. "Hallelujah. Give thanks to Jehovah, for it is good (or He is good). His mercy endureth for ever." This last we have often seenthe expression of this unfailing faithful mercy of Jehovah, w...
THEY JOINED THEMSELVES ALSO UNTO BAALPEOR,.... Or to the idol Peor, as the Targum. Baal, which signifies Lord or master, was a common name for an idol in many countries; wherefore, to distinguish one...
They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. Ver. 28. _They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor_] Heb. they were unequally yoked, as 2 Corinthians 6:14 . _ Quam ma...
_They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor_ To wit, in worship, whereby they had a union and communion with him, as God's people have with God in acts of his worship. _And ate the sacrifices of the d...
They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, Numbers 25, in the immoral worship introduced by the Moabites, AND ATE THE SACRIFICES OF THE DEAD, so called because the idols are dead, lifeless nothingnes...
GOD'S BLESSINGS IN SPITE OF ISRAEL'S UNFAITHFULNESS. This psalm, whose author is not known, gives a detailed confession of the sins of Israel, as contrasted with the wonders of God's mercy, the concl...
13-33 Those that will not wait for God's counsel, shall justly be given up to their own hearts' lusts, to walk in their own counsels. An undue desire, even for lawful things, becomes sinful. God show...
THEY JOINED THEMSELVES, to wit, in worship, whereby they had a union and communion with him, as God's people have with God in acts of his worship. And this phrase seems also to note their carnal copul...
Psalms 106:28 joined H6775 (H8735) Peor H1187 ate H398 (H8799) sacrifices H2077 dead H4191 (H8801)...
Psalms 106:1. _Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever._ In this Psalm we have the history of God's people turned to practical account. I have...
In this Psalm we have the story of God's ancient covenant people, and as we read it, we may read our own history in it if we also are his people. It is a looking-glass, in which the beholder may see h...
This Psalm relates the story of God's mercy to Israel, of the people's provocation of Jehovah, and of his great patience with them. It commences with an exhortation to praise the Lord. Psalms 106:1....
CONTENTS: The badness of Israel made heinous by the great goodness of God. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist, Moses, Aaron, Dathan, Abiram, Phinehas. CONCLUSION: Man's perverseness arises continually from hi...
This also is a Psalm of David, and is cited in 1 Chronicles 16., although the first and the two last verses only are there given. The subject is similar to that of the preseding psalm; and it was prob...
_Yea, they despised the pleasant land._ THE PERSISTENCY OF SIN, THE RETRIBUTION OF GOD, AND THE INFLUENCE OF SAINTS I. The awful persistency of sin (verses 24, 25, 28). You may reason with the sinner...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:1. This historical psalm (see notes on Psalms 78 and 105) retells a series of events from Israel’s history to illustrate God’s steadfas
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:6 This is a list of incidents that begins at the shore of the Red Sea (vv. Psalms 106:7) and ends during the time of the judges (vv....
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 106:28 Next is the time when the Israelites YOKED THEMSELVES TO THE BAAL OF PEOR (Numbers 25:1). It took the prompt and drastic action of...
INTRODUCTION “This it the first of a series of Hallelujah Psalms: Psalms of which the word Hallelujah is, as it were, the inscription (106, 111–113, 117, 135, 146–150.). As in the last Psalm, so here...
EXPOSITION This is the first of the strictly "Hallelujah psalms"—_i.e._ of the psalms beginning with the phrase "hallelujah"—which are Psalms 106:1, Psalms 111:1, Psalms 112:1,...
Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? Who can show forth all his praise? Blessed are they that ke...
1 Corinthians 10:19; 1 Corinthians 10:20; Deuteronomy 32:17; Deuteronomy 4:3;...
Joined — They had communion with him, as God's people have with God in acts of his worship....