“ Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: ”
Because they believed not in God - They did not believe in his power, or in his promises. And trusted not in his salvation - In his power and his willingness to save. They had had abundant ev...
Because they believed not in God, and (n) trusted not in his salvation: (n) That is, in his fatherly providence, by which he cares for his, and provides sufficiently.
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,...
trusted not . confided not. Hebrew. batah. App-69.
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...
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: They believed not in God - After all the miracles they had seen, they were not convinced that there was a Supreme Being! and, conse...
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...
The history of this event is recorded at large, Numbers 11:1 . But beside the history, I earnestly beg the Reader to keep his eye steadily upon the sacramental design of the whole. The despising her...
Because they believed not in God ,.... That he was able to give them bread, and provide flesh for them, or bring them through the wilderness to Canaan's land, as he had promised. God, and he only, i...
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: Ver. 22. Because they believed not in God ] As faith is a radical and complex grace; so is unbelief a radical sin, a teeming vic...
The Lord heard, and was wroth Such rude and insolent language highly incensed the Divine Majesty. So a fire was kindled against Jacob He sent lightning from heaven to consume those whom he had be...
Wonders Wrought in Behalf of Israel; The Crimes of the Israelites; Judgments Brought on the Israelites. ...
That he both could and would save them from the famine and destruction which they feared.
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...
trusted ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 2:12 ).
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 John 5:10 ; Hebrews 11:6 ; Hebrews 3:12 ; Hebrews 3:18 ; Hebrews 3:19 ; Isaiah 7:9 ; Jude 1:5 ; Psalms 106:24
Trusted not — That he both could, and would save them from the famine which they feared.