“ Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips. ”
Because they provoked his spirit - literally, “They made his spirit bitter,” or they embittered his soul. They threw him off his guard, so that instead of manifesting the meekness and gentleness...
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....
his: i.e. Moses. spirit. Hebrew. ruach . App-9. spake unadvisedly. . very rare Hebrew word. Occurs only here in the Psalms.
33. For they grieved his spirit The verb מרה, marah, properly signifies to vex or irritate, but as it is here put in what the Hebrews call the Hiphil conjugation, some are of opini...
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips. They provoked his spirit - המרו himru, from מרה marah, to rebel: they brought it into a rebellious state; he was soured a...
So that he spake unadvisedly— The word unadvisedly is added in the Translation. The original says only that he spake with his lips: the speaking with the lips, being a thing in itself indiffere...
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...
Because they provoked his spirit ;.... Though he was a very meek man, meeker than any upon the face of the earth, Numbers 12:2 , yet, being greatly provoked, let fall some passionate and undue expr...
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips. Ver. 33. Because they provoked his spirit ] So that he was in a pelt to the grieving of God's good Spirit within him,...
They angered him also at the waters of strife Of which see Numbers 20:3-5 . It went ill with Moses for their sakes Or, because of them , upon occasion of their unbelief and murmuring, whereby h...
Provocation of Israel in the Wilderness. 13 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel: 14 But luste...
He spake unadvisedly: so this word is thought to signify, Leviticus 5:4 Proverbs 12:18 . Or, he spake , as the word commonly signifies. Not that it was in itself a sin to speak, but because h...
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 angered Him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes. A good man suffering for a community, and a community pursuing its way to destruction I. A good ma...
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...
Genesis 30:1 ; Genesis 35:16-18 ; James 3:2 ; Job 2:10 ; Job 38:2 ; Job 40:4 ; Job 40:5 ; Job 42:7 ; Job 42:8 ; Numbers 20:10 ; Numbers 20:11 ; Psalms 141:3 ; Psalms 39:1