“ Yea, they despised the pleasantd land, they believed not his word: ”
Yea, they despised the pleasant land - Margin, as in Hebrew, “land of desire.” That is, a country “to be desired,” - a country whose situation, climate, productions, made it desirable as a place...
Yea, they despised (m) the pleasant land, they believed not his word: (m) That is Canaan, which acted as a promise of the heavenly inheritance to come, though it was only worth a penny in comparison...
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....
24. And they despised It was an evident demonstration of the unconquerable wickedness of the Jews, that, after they had been in the jaws of destruction, and while they had scarcely escaped f...
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: (1) The people's distrust of the Lord's word as to Canaan after hearing the spies' report ( Psalms 106:24-27 ). (2) The sin o...
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...
For the same reason as before, I include the whole of what is here rehearsed in one reading. But let not the Reader be as brief upon the interesting things here recorded. Let him consult the several...
MAN’S ACCEPTANCE OR REJECTION OF GOD ‘They thought scorn of that pleasant land: and gave no credence unto His word.’ Psalms 106:24 (Prayer Book Version) Whatever diversity of opinion upon the...
Yea, they despised the pleasant land ,.... Or "land of desire" r; the land of Canaan; a very delightful and desirable country, the glory of all lands, a land that abounded with everything for necess...
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word: Ver. 24. Yea, they despised the pleasant land ] Heb. The land of desire, flowing with milk and honey, sumen totius terrae, as on...
They despised the pleasant land Canaan, which was so, not only in truth, but even by the relation of those spies, who discouraged them from entering into it. They preferred Egypt and their former b...
Provocation of Israel in the Wilderness. 13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: 14 But luste...
Despised; preferring Egypt and the former bondage before it, Numbers 14:3,4 , and not thinking it worthy of a little hazard and difficulty in taking the possession of it. The pleasant land, Ca...
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...
Psalms 106:24 I. Without the promised land, what was the life of Moses? What was the life of the people? In reading the Scripture account, the general impression is of a very weary, hard-worked li...
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...
Yea, they despised the pleasant land. The persistency of sin, the retribution of God, and the influence of saints I. The awful persistency of sin (verses 24, 25, 28). You may reason with the si...
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...
Deuteronomy 1:32 ; Deuteronomy 11:11 ; Deuteronomy 11:12 ; Deuteronomy 8:7-9 ; Ezekiel 20:6 ; Genesis 25:34 ; Hebrews 12:16 ; Hebrews 3:12 ; Hebrews 3:18 ; Hebrews 3:19 ; Hebrews 4:14 ; H...
Despised — Preferring Egypt, and their former bondage, before it, Numbers 14:3-4 .