“ And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. ”
And they tempted God in their heart - Exodus 16:2 . The heart was the source of the evil. They were not satisfied with what he gave them. They asked for that which would be more agreeable to the...
And they tempted God in their heart by (l) asking meat for their lust. (l) Then to require more than is necessary, and to separate God's power from his will, is to tempt God.
LXXVIII. The Lesson of Israel's History. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical religion of the Samaritans. God, on the contrary,...
lust . soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
18. And they tempted God in their heart. This is the provocation of which mention is made in the preceding verse. Not that it was unlawful for them simply to ask food, when constrained to do...
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. By asking meat for their lust - לנפשם lenaphsham, "for their souls," i.e., for their lives; for they said in their hearts that the l...
By asking meat for their lust— See Hasselquist's Travels, p. 290.
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. -The unbelief of the Israelite fathers is detailed as a sad contrast to God's marvels perfor...
This long historical Ps. may be compared with Psalms 105, 106, and with Deuteronomy 32 . It traces the course of God's relations with His people from the exodus down to the time of David, and dwells...
Psalms 78:1-72 THIS psalm is closely related to Psalms 105:1-45 ; Psalms 106:1-48 ; Psalms 107:1-43 . Like them, it treats the history of Israel, and especially the Exodus and wilderness wander...
“A Table in the Wilderness” Psalms 78:13-24 Throughout this wonderful recital there is a perpetual contrast between God's unswerving goodness and the incessant backsliding of His people; and as...
The supreme quantity of this psalm is that throughout all its measures, over against the repeated failure of His people God's persistent patience is set forth in bold relief. The purpose of the psalm...
Here we have a full representation of Israel's unworthiness, as the preceding verses gave us a short relation of God's mercy. Reader, had you and I been present when, at the lifting up of the rod of...
And they tempted God in their heart ,.... Which is desperately wicked, and from whence all impiety flows; they entertained hard thoughts of God; they inwardly fretted at their present circumstances,...
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. Ver. 18. And they tempted God in their heart ] In their hearts first, but afterwards also with their lips. The psalmist here stri...
And they sinned yet more Hebrew, ויוסיפו עוד לחשׂאלו, They added yet to sin against him. All these miraculous works did not alter their depraved nature; but it broke out into new and greater prov...
Wonders Wrought in Behalf of Israel; The Crimes of the Israelites; Judgments Brought on the Israelites. ...
Tempted; desired a trial and proof of God's power, as the next verse plainly showeth. See Numbers 11:4 . For their lust; not for their necessary subsistence, for which they had manna, but out...
INTRODUCTION Superscription,—“Maschil of Asaph ,” i.e. , an instruction of Asaph, a didactic song by Asaph. The Psalm was probably written by the celebrated Asaph in the time of David. Occasion...
This story of the children of Israel, after they came out of Egypt, is like a looking-glass in which we may, with great sadness, see ourselves reflected. Psalms 78:9 . The children of Ephraim, bei...
Title. Maschil of Asaph. Rabbi Kimchi says, that this title, which signifies to give instruction, designates also the species of music or melody to which the words were set, as is now the practice...
And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. The conduct of God towards the world, and the world’s conduct to Him I. God’s dispensations towards depraved man. 1. Wonder...
EXPOSITION This, the first of the "historical psalms," though assigned by the rationalistic school (De Wette, Ewald, Koster, Hitzig) to a period subsequent to the Captivity, is generally allowed...
The Narrative of God's Deeds
1 Corinthians 10:6 ; Exodus 16:2 ; Exodus 16:3 ; James 4:2 ; James 4:3 ; Numbers 11:4 ; Psalms 106:14 ; Psalms 106:15
Tempted — Desired a proof of God's power. Lust — Not for their necessary subsistence, but out of an inordinate and luxurious appetite.