“ And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. ”
On these verses see Numbers 16:31-35 . This refers to the time when they rebelled against Moses.
CVI. Israel's Sin. Psalms 106:1-5 . 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....
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: -Three transgressions of Israel in the wilderness are detailed, rising in gradation of moral guilt, without respect to time: (1) T...
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 Egyp...
(13-33) These twenty verses cover the desert wanderings, beginning with the discontented spirit mentioned in Exodus 15:23 .
Psalms 106:1-48 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...
Judgment Restrained by Intercession Psalms 106:16-33 The strife between the ungodly and the servants of God has characterized all the centuries. These verses record some of its phases. Moses is...
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 d...
I include all these verses within one reading, though the Reader will recollect that they refer to several very interesting transactions at different periods in the church's history. But it would swe...
And a fire was kindled in their company ,.... This seems to be the company of Korah, or however a part of it, the two hundred and fifty men that had censers, and so were of the Levitical race, as Ko...
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. Ver. 18. And a fire was kindled in their company ] It is both a just presage and desert of ruin not to be warned. Let sedit...
They envied Moses also His authority; in the camp As generalissimo of the armies of Israel, and chief justice in all their courts; and Aaron They envied him his power, as high-priest , on acco...
Provocation of Israel in the Wilderness. 13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: 14 But luste...
In their company; in their associates or confederates, those wicked men , as he calls them in the next clause, to wit, Korah and his company, who were consumed by a fire from the Lord , Numbers...
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 her...
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...
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 p...
They envied Moses. Religious envy and its doom I. Religious envy. 1. Envy is the chief in many respects of the principalities and powers of darkness in the soul. 2. But for many reasons r...
EXPOSITION This is the first of the strictly "Hallelujah psalms"— i.e. of the psalms beginning with the phrase "hallelujah"—which are Psalms 106:1-19 , Psalms 111:1-19 , Psalms 112:1-19 , P...
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 co...
Hebrews 12:29 ; Numbers 16:35-40 ; Numbers 16:46