“ And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. ”
And they served their idols - Judges 2:12-13 , Judges 2:17 , Judges 2:19 ; Judges 3:6-7 . Which were a snare unto them - Like the snares or toils by which birds and wild beasts are caught...
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....
Which were . And they became. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read "And it became".
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. They served their idols - עצביהם atsabbeyhem, their labors or griefs - idols, so called because of the pains taken in forming them, the labo...
They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: -From the fathers in the wilderness the Psalmist turns to the sons in Canaan. In the former half of the decade their...
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...
(34-39) The national sin after the settlement in Canaan.
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...
Regarded When They Cried Psalms 106:34-48 Israel's conquest of Canaan did not fulfill the divine mandate. The inhabitants, whose sins had become a menace to mankind, were allowed to exist side...
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...
And they served their idols ,.... Of gold and silver, wood and stone; the works of men's hands, senseless creatures; which are nothing in the world, and bring grief and sorrow to the worshippers of...
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. Ver. 36. And they served their idols ] The devil is ειδωλοχαρης, saith Synesius, a lover of idolatry, and he speaks through idolaters as...
They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom Concerning whose destruction, the Lord commanded them For when the iniquity of the Canaanites was full, it was God's will to extirpate their race...
Provocation of Israel in the Wilderness; The Divine Compassion. 34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom th...
Which idols were an occasion of their falling both into further and greater sins, as it follows, Psalms 106:37,38 ; and into utter ruin, as this phrase also notes, Exodus 23:33 Judges 2:12 ,...
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...
2 Chronicles 33:2-9 ; 2 Kings 17:16 ; 2 Kings 17:17 ; 2 Kings 17:8-11 ; Deuteronomy 7:16 ; Exodus 23:33 ; Exodus 34:15 ; Exodus 34:16 ; Ezekiel 16:15-63 ; Ezekiel 20:28-32 ; Joshua 23:13 ;...