Psalms 106:39 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. ”

• Psalms 106:39 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Thus were they defiled with their own works - By their very attempts to deliver themselves from sin. They were corrupt, and the consciousness that they were sinners led them to the commission of...

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• Psalms 106:39 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went (x) a whoring with their own inventions. (x) Then true chastity is to cleave wholly and only to God.

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• Psalms 106:39 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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....

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• Psalms 106:39 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  39 And they were polluted with their own works He now concludes by stating generally, that the Jews, in adopting the abominable practices of the heathen, were become wholly filthy; because i...

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• Psalms 106:39 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. And went a whoring - By fornication, whoredom, and idolatry, the Scripture often expresses idolatry and idol...

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• Psalms 106:39 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 106:39 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 106:39 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (34-39) The national sin after the settlement in Canaan.

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• Psalms 106:39 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Psalms 106:39 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 106:39 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 106:39 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 106:39 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thus were they defiled with their own works ,.... Not the land only, but they themselves also; or "with their works" a, with the works of the Heathen they learned, Psalms 106:35 , or rather with th...

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• Psalms 106:39 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. Ver. 39. Thus were they defiled ] Great sins do greatly pollute; neither are men by anything more disadva...

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• Psalms 106:39 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 106:39 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Provocation of Israel in the Wilderness; The Divine Compassion.       34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom th...

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• Psalms 106:39 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Committed spiritual whoredom, by worshipping those idols which were but human inventions, and that in such an unnatural and bloody manner, as they had devised.

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• Psalms 106:39 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 106:39 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 106:39 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 106:39 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Psalms 106:39 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 106:39 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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...

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• Psalms 106:39 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 34:16 ; Ezekiel 16:15-63 ; Ezekiel 20:18 ; Ezekiel 20:30 ; Ezekiel 20:31 ; Ezekiel 20:43 ; Ezekiel 23:3-49 ; Hosea 9:1 ; Isaiah 24:5 ; Isaiah 24:6 ; Isaiah 59:3 ; Jeremiah 3:1 ; J...

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