“ Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, ”
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters - See 2 Kings 16:3 ; Ezekiel 16:20 ; Ezekiel 20:31 ; Isaiah 57:5 . Unto devils - Hebrew, שׁדים shêdiym . The Septuagint, δαιμονί...
Yea, they sacrificed their (u) sons and their daughters unto devils, (u) He shows how monstrous a thing idolatry is, which can win us to things abhorring to nature, while God's word cannot obtain sm...
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....
devils . demons. Compare Deuteronomy 32:17 .
37. And they sacrificed The prophet here mentions one species of superstition which demonstrates the awful blindness of the people; their not hesitating to sacrifice their sons and daughters...
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, They sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils - See 2 Kings 16:3 ; Isaiah 57:5 ; Ezekiel 16:20 ; ezekiel E Zephaniah 2...
They sacrificed their sons, &c.— It is very certain, that the sacrifices of these gods were indeed as cruel as they are here represented. Philastrius observes expressly, says Mr. Selden, that t...
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...
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils. Who have their name here given them from a word that signifies to waste and destroy, they being the destroyers of mankind. So the Ta...
Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, Ver. 37. Yea, they sacrificed their sons, &c. ] The devils are here called Shedim, destroyers (in opposition to Shaddai, the Al...
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...
Of which heathenish practice, See Poole on " Leviticus 18:21 " . Unto devils; by which expression he informeth them that they did not worship God, as they pretended and sometimes designed, but dev...
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...
1 Corinthians 10:20 ; 2 Chronicles 11:15 ; 2 Kings 16:3 ; 2 Kings 17:17 ; 2 Kings 21:6 ; Deuteronomy 12:30 ; Deuteronomy 12:31 ; Deuteronomy 18:10 ; Deuteronomy 32:17 ; Ezekiel 16:20 ; Eze...
Devils — They did not worship God as they pretended, but devils in their idols; for those spirits, which were supposed by the Heathen idolaters to inhabit in their images, were not good spirits, bu...