Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 78:3
Which we have heard and known, and our (c) fathers have told us.
(c) Who were the people of God.
Which we have heard and known, and our (c) fathers have told us.
(c) Who were the people of God.
Verse Psalms 78:3. _WHICH WE HAVE HEARD AND KNOWN_] We have heard the _law_, and known the _facts_....
WHICH WE HAVE HEARD AND KNOWN - Which have been communicated to us as certain truth. AND OUR FATHERS HAVE TOLD US - That is, we have heard and known them by their telling us; or, this is the means by...
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...
KNOWN. come to know....
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...
It is best to place a full stop at the end of Psalms 78:2, and connect Psalms 78:3 thus: The things which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told to us, We will not hide from their sons,...
WHICH WE HAVE HEARD AND KNOWN— _What we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us,_ Psalms 78:4 _we will not conceal from their sons of the next generation; relating the praises of the Lord._...
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:...
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. WHICH WE HAVE HEARD ... WE WILL NOT HIDE. See introductory remarks. Translate, 'What we have heard, etc., we will not hide (omit them) f...
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
I WILL OPEN. — A difficulty is started by the fact that the psalm deals with history, and is neither a proverb (_mâshal_) nor riddle (_chîdah_). But the Divine rejection of the northern tribes may be...
אֲשֶׁ֣ר שָׁ֭מַעְנוּ וַ נֵּדָעֵ֑ם וַ֝ אֲבֹותֵ֗ינוּ...
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,...
Was not the gospel preached to our fathers in type and figure, as it is now in sum and substance? See Hebrews 4:2; Galatians 3:8....
3._What we have heard and known. _There seems to be some discrepancy between what the Psalmist had stated in the commencement, when he said that he would speak of great and hidden matters, and what he...
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...
WHICH WE HAVE HEARD AND KNOWN,.... The change of number from "I" to "we" have made some think that the disciples of Christ are here introduced speaking; but there is no need to suppose that, since our...
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. Ver. 3. _Which we have heard and known_] Hearing and seeing are the two learned senses, whereby knowledge, yea, life, entereth into the so...
which we, the people of the older generation, HAVE HEARD AND KNOWN, AND OUR FATHERS HAVE TOLD US, this being the custom in Israel, according to God's command, Deuteronomy 6:6; Deuteronomy 20-25....
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 78:3 heard H8085 (H8804) known H3045 (H8799) fathers H1 told H5608 (H8765)...
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
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...
Exodus 12:26; Exodus 12:27; Exodus 13:14; Exodus 13:15; Exodus 13:8;...