Psalms 78:51
What meaning of the psalms 78:51 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 78:51 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:"
What does Psalms 78:51 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:"
AND SMOTE ALL THE FIRSTBORN IN EGYPT - See Exodus 11:4; Exodus 12:29. THE CHIEF OF THEIR STRENGTH - Those on whom they relied; their firstborn; their pride; their glory; their heirs. Compare Genesis...
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 (Psalms 78:12) 4. The continued provocat...
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...
STRENGTH. strengths (plural) Manly vigour. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the firstborn. Compare Genesis 49:3.Deuteronomy 21:17; Psalms 105:36. TABERNACLES. tents. Hebrew...
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...
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...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ TELL YOUR CHILDREN PSALMS 78 JESUS SAID, "LET THE LITTLE CHILDREN COME TO ME. DO NOT STOP THEM". (MATTHEW 19:14) PSALMS 78:1-8 (This is one) of *Asaph’s Psalms t...
וַ יַּ֣ךְ כָּל ־בְּכֹ֣ור בְּ מִצְרָ֑יִם רֵאשִׁ֥ית אֹ֝ונִ֗ים בְּ אָהֳלֵי ־חָֽם׃...
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 especially the Exodus and wilderness wanderings, for purposes of...
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,...
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the (e) chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of (f) Ham: (e) The firstborn are so called, as in (Genesis 49:3). (f) That is, Egypt: for it was called Mi...
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...
AND SMOTE ALL THE FIRSTBORN IN EGYPT,.... From the prince to the peasant; and not only the firstborn of men, but of beasts also, Exodus 12:29, THE CHIEF OF THEIR STRENGTH; or first of it, as the fir...
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of Ham: Ver. 51. _And smote all the firstborn in Egypt_] _Certo pestis genere perniciocissimo et acutissimo._ Th...
_He made a way to his anger_ By removing every obstacle that mercy had thrown in the path of justice, he made a way for his indignation, which then rushed forth like a fiery stream. Hebrew, יפלס נתיב...
The Narrative of God's Deeds...
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 disco...
THE CHIEF OF THEIR STRENGTH; another expression noting the first-born, who are so called, GENESIS 49:3. OF HAM; of the Egyptians, the posterity of Ham, GENESIS 10:6; which title he there gives them, t...
Psalms 78:51 destroyed H5221 (H8686) firstborn H1060 Egypt H4714 first H7225 strength H202 tents H168 Ham H2526 smote - Psalms 105:36, Psalms 135:8, Psalms 136:10; Exodus 12:12,...
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 (P...
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...
_And smote all the firstborn in Egypt;.. . but made His own people to go forth like sheep._ GOD’S DEALINGS WITH EGYPT AND ISRAEL I. The punishment of egypt. Egypt, through its kings, had become the d...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 78:1. This is a historical psalm (compare Psalms 105:1; Psalms 106:1), recalling events from Israel’s past. It shows how God persevered with his people, even when they disbe...
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 12:12; Exodus 12:29; Exodus 12:30; Exodus 13:15; Genesis 10:6; Genesis 49:3; Genesis 9:22; Hebrews 11:28; Psalms 105:23; Psalms 105:3
Ham — Of the Egyptians, the posterity of Ham, the cursed children of a cursed parent....