Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 78:63
The fire (n) consumed their young men; and their maidens were not (o) given to marriage.
(n) They were suddenly destroyed, (1 Samuel 4:10).
(o) They had no marriage songs: that is, they were not married.
The fire (n) consumed their young men; and their maidens were not (o) given to marriage.
(n) They were suddenly destroyed, (1 Samuel 4:10).
(o) They had no marriage songs: that is, they were not married.
Verse Psalms 78:63. _THEIR MAIDENS WERE NOT GIVEN TO MARRIAGE._] הוללו _hullalu_, were not celebrated with marriage songs. It is considered a calamity in the east if a maiden arrives at the age of _tw...
THE FIRE CONSUMED THEIR YOUNG MEN - Fire here may be regarded as an image of destructive war, as in Numbers 21:28 : “For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath co...
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...
WERE NOT GIVEN TO MARRIAGE. were not praised: i.e. had no marriage song....
Fire devoured their young men; And their maidens had no marriage song. (R.V.) The fire of war (Numbers 21:28) consumed the young men, so that the maidens remained unmarried....
Once more therefore God punished them for their sins, abandoning them to their enemies and even suffering the Ark to be captured....
THEIR MAIDENS WERE NOT GIVEN TO MARRIAGE— _Were not celebrated_ or _praised._ Mudge. i.e. They lost all their charms and agreeableness; or, perhaps, were no longer serenaded and praised in poetry and...
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:...
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: -Israel's unfaithfulness in the time of the Judges caused God to forsake the tabernacle of Shiloh, and brought down ot...
78:63 young (a-5) Or 'chosen,' as ver. 31....
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
WERE NOT GIVEN. — See margin. The desolation and misery were marked by the absence of the glad nuptial song....
בַּחוּרָ֥יו אָֽכְלָה ־אֵ֑שׁ וּ֝ בְתוּלֹתָ֗יו לֹ֣א...
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
GOD RAISES UP HIS SHEPHERD DAVID Psalms 78:59 This paragraph continues the history of the Judges, and tells the story of what befell after the battle in which Eli's sons were slain. See 1 Samuel 4:1....
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 the church is pursued through all these verses. But we must look farther than the history, and particularly in the close of the Psalm, which ends with a view of David as the chosen of G...
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...
THE FIRE CONSUMED THEIR YOUNG MEN,.... Not Nadab and Abihu, as some of the Jewish Rabbins interpret it, of which Jarchi makes mention; but the young men, the choice, the flower, of the Israelitish arm...
The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. Ver. 63. _The fire consumed_] The fire of warlike force, which quickly licketh up all, and layeth waste. _ And their...
_He gave his people over unto the sword_ To the sword of his own justice, and of the enemies' rage, for _he was wroth with his inheritance;_ and that wrath of his was _the fire which consumed their yo...
The fire, namely, that of wars, CONSUMED THEIR YOUNG MEN; AND THEIR MAIDENS WERE NOT GIVEN TO MARRIAGE, no marriage anthems were intoned in their honor, for they were killed or dragged into exile duri...
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
GIVEN: _ Heb._ praised...
56-72 After the Israelites were settled in Canaan, the children were like their fathers. God gave them his testimonies, but they turned back. Presumptuous sins render even Israelites hateful to God's...
Because the young men who should have married them were slain. Heb. _were not praised_, to wit, with marriage songs, which was usual at marriage solemnities among the Jews, as appears from JEREMIAH 7:...
Psalms 78:63 fire H784 consumed H398 (H8804) men H970 maidens H1330 marriage H1984 (H8795) fire -...
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 78:56 These verses describe the time of the judges, leading up to the capture of the ark and the death of Eli and his sons (vv. Psalms 78:60; see...
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...
Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 32:22; Isaiah 4:1; Jeremiah 16:9;...