“ Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: ”
Yet they tempted and provoked ... - They tried the patience of God, and provoked him to anger after they were peaceably settled in the promised land. See Judges 2:10-13 . The object is to show t...
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,...
the MOST HIGH. Hebrew. 'eth 'Elohim 'Elyon. App-4.
56. And they tempted and provoked the Most High God. Here they are upbraided for having, notwithstanding the many tokens of the divine favor by which they were distinguished, persevered in a...
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: -Israel's unfaithfulness in the time of the Judges caused God to forsake the tabernacle of Shiloh, and brought do...
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...
Safely Led, Yet Bent on Wandering Psalms 78:49-58 This section of the psalm deals largely with the books of Joshua and Judges. The failures that had characterized the Wilderness crossed the Jor...
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 a sweet contrast is drawn, in the view of divine love and compassion, notwithstanding human ingratitude. The sacred writer takes up the subject in tracing the history of the church even into Can...
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God ,.... After the death of Joshua, and in the times of the judges, by worshipping and serving the gods of the nations, and forsaking the Lord their God,...
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: Ver. 56. Yet they tempted and provoked, &c. ] Neither God's judgments on their enemies nor his mercies to themsel...
Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies to Israel. 40 How oft did they p...
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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 kept not His testimonies: but turned back, and dealt unfaithfully their fathers. The deceitfulness of the heart as to duty I. As to the performance of duty, the heart discovers its power of...
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
2 Kings 17:7-23 ; Deuteronomy 31:16-20 ; Deuteronomy 32:15-21 ; Ezekiel 16:15-26 ; Judges 2:11 ; Judges 2:12 ; Nehemiah 9:25 ; Nehemiah 9:26 ; Psalms 78:40 ; Psalms 78:41