Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 78:22
Because they believed not in God, and (n) trusted not in his salvation:
(n) That is, in his fatherly providence, by which he cares for his, and provides sufficiently.
Because they believed not in God, and (n) trusted not in his salvation:
(n) That is, in his fatherly providence, by which he cares for his, and provides sufficiently.
Verse Psalms 78:22. _THEY BELIEVED NOT IN GOD_] After all the miracles they had seen, they were not convinced that there was a Supreme Being! and, consequently, they did _not trust in his salvation _...
BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED NOT IN GOD - They did not believe in his power, or in his promises. AND TRUSTED NOT IN HIS SALVATION - In his power and his willingness to save. They had had abundant evidence o...
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...
TRUSTED NOT. confided not. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69....
For a moment they had believed (Exodus 14:31), but they soon fell away. Cp. Numbers 14:11, a verse which might serve as a motto for this Psalm. _his salvation_ Of which they had had such marvellous pr...
In spite of these miracles of mercy they sinned yet more, and tempted God in their unbelief, so that while He supplied their wants He was compelled to punish them for their sin. The order is logical n...
DISCOURSE: 632 THE EVIL OF UNBELIEF Psalms 78:19. They spake against God: they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams o...
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:...
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. -The unbelief of the Israelite fathers is detailed as a sad contrast to God's marvels performed i...
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
כִּ֤י לֹ֣א הֶ֭אֱמִינוּ בֵּ אלֹהִ֑ים וְ לֹ֥א
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
“A TABLE IN THE WILDERNESS” Psalms 78:13 Throughout this wonderful recital there is a perpetual contrast between God's unswerving goodness and the incessant backsliding of His people; and as we read...
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 history of this event is recorded at large, Numbers 11:1. But beside the history, I earnestly beg the Reader to keep his eye steadily upon the sacramental design of the whole. The despising here s...
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...
BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED NOT IN GOD,.... That he was able to give them bread, and provide flesh for them, or bring them through the wilderness to Canaan's land, as he had promised. God, and he only, is t...
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: Ver. 22. _Because they believed not in God_] As faith is a radical and complex grace; so is unbelief a radical sin, a teeming vice,...
_The Lord heard, and was wroth_ Such rude and insolent language highly incensed the Divine Majesty. _So a fire was kindled against Jacob_ He sent lightning from heaven to consume those whom he had bef...
because they believed not in God, had no faith in the covenant God, AND TRUSTED NOT IN HIS SALVATION, the deliverance which He had promised them;...
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
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...
That he both could and would save them from the famine and destruction which they feared....
Psalms 78:22 believe H539 (H8689) God H430 trust H982 (H8804) salvation H3444 Psalms 106:24
TRUSTED (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
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...
_Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth. .. Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation._ MISTRUST THAT DESTROYS There are morbid growths in the human frame which our doc...
_And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust._ THE CONDUCT OF GOD TOWARDS THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD’S CONDUCT TO HIM I. God’s dispensations towards depraved man. 1. Wonderful me...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; P
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:17 In spite of the deeds the people had seen, YET THEY SINNED STILL MORE AGAINST God. ⇐...
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 John 5:10; Hebrews 11:6; Hebrews 3:12; Hebrews 3:18; Hebrews 3:19;...
Trusted not — That he both could, and would save them from the famine which they feared....