“ When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: ”
When God heard this - literally, “God heard;” that is, he understood this; he was acquainted with it. He heard their prayers addressed to false gods; he heard their praises sung in honor of idols...
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,...
When God heard this, He. There is no "When" in the Hebrew Render: "God heard this, and He was wroth" heard. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
59 God heard it, and was wroth. The prophet again shows that God, when he found that no good resulted from his long-suffering, which the people abused, yea, even treated with mockery, and pe...
When God heard this , he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
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...
God Raises up His Shepherd David Psalms 78:59-72 This paragraph continues the history of the Judges, and tells the story of what befell after the battle in which Eli's sons were slain. See 1 S...
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...
God may be said to hear when the cry of a sinful land comes up before him for judgment. So in the case of Cain's murdering his brother: The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground...
When God heard this ,.... Their building high places, and sacrificing on them, their making and worshipping graven images, and the language which such actions spoke; who also heard what they said to...
When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: Ver. 59. When God heard this ] Sin crieth aloud in God's ears, though it be never so closely and cunningly carried. And greatly...
And dealt unfaithfully like their fathers They imitated their forefathers, both in their frequent apostacies from God, and in their falseness to their promises, when they pretended to repent of the...
Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies to Israel. 40 How oft did they p...
Heard, i.e. perceived or understood, as hearing is oft used, as Genesis 11:7 , Genesis 41:15 , &c. It is spoken of God after the manner of men.
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...
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
Genesis 18:20 ; Genesis 18:21 ; Lamentations 2:7 ; Leviticus 20:23 ; Leviticus 26:44 ; Psalms 11:4 ; Psalms 14:2-5 ; Psalms 106:40 ; Zechariah 11:8
Heard — Perceived or understood, it is spoken of God after the manner of men.