Psalms 78:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? ”

Psalms 78:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold, he smote the rock ... - See the notes at Psalms 78:15 . The smiting of the rock the first time occurred “before” the complaining about the food. The fact that the rock had been smitten c...
Psalms 78:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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,...
Psalms 78:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 632 THE EVIL OF UNBELIEF Psalms 78:19-22 . They spake against God: they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the...
Psalms 78:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
Psalms 78:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Psalms 78:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 78:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A comparison of these verses with the references in the margin shows how the ancient narratives fared under poetical treatment. Furnish a table. — Comp. Psalms 23:5 , Note Gushed out. — Comp....
Psalms 78:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Psalms 78:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“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...
Psalms 78:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Psalms 78:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Psalms 78:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed ,.... This they allow was done by him, for these are their words continued; suggesting, that though the waters did g...
Psalms 78:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? Ver. 20. Behold, he smote the rock, &c. ] And so...
Psalms 78:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Psalms 78:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Wonders Wrought in Behalf of Israel; The Crimes of the Israelites; Judgments Brought on the Israelites. ...
Psalms 78:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The waters gushed out; which, all things consider seems not so wonderful, since fountains of water something break forth unexpectedly from or through rocks. But it is far more difficult to give us...
Psalms 78:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Psalms 78:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 78:20 Notice what kind of unbelief is here. It does not deny the past fact. It acknowledges that God has done a miracle of mercy. But in that miracle it finds no such revelation of God Hims...
Psalms 78:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Psalms 78:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Psalms 78:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Psalms 78:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Psalms 78:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Narrative of God's Deeds
Psalms 78:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 17:6 ; Exodus 17:7 ; Genesis 18:12-14 ; Numbers 11:21-23 ; Numbers 20:11 ; Psalms 78:41

Psalms 78:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 78:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 78:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Psalms 78:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 78:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 78:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 78:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 78:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 78:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 78:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 78:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 78:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 78:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 78:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 78:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 78:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 78:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 78:20 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 78:20 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 78:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 78:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 78:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 78:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 78:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge