Psalms 78:27

No doubt there is poetical hyperbole here, but for the enormous numbers of quails that are now caught, see the article quoted above.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He rained flesh also upon them as dust - The flesh of quails, Numbers 11:31 . The word “rained” means that they seemed to come upon them like a...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

rained. As in Psalms 78:24 . as the sand. Figure of speech Paroemia . App-6.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
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...
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 fro...
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 Israe...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Blessed Yet Ungrateful Psalms 78:25-37 God our Father is prepared to do “exceeding abundantly” for His children; but too often we become so eng...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What gracious instructions are read to us in these verses! See, my soul, how unsuitable and self-destroying would prove thy desires in numberless ins...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He rained flesh also upon them as dust ,.... By "flesh" is meant fowl, as the following clause shows; for there is flesh of birds, as well as of oth...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: Ver. 27. He rained flesh also upon them as dust ] Dapibu...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He caused an east wind to blow , &c. First an eastern, and afterward a southern wind. He rained flesh, &c., and feathered fowls like as the...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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

Feathered fowls, Heb. winged fowl ; which is noted to show that it was a supernatural work, whereby God took away from them the use of their wings...
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...
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 reflec...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

The story of how the children of Israel behaved themselves towards their gracious God. Psalms 78:10-16 . They kept not the covenant of God, and re...
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...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Narrative of God's Deeds
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

He rained flesh also upon them as dust, in great abundance, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea, a day's journey wide around their camp...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 16:12 ; Exodus 16:13 ; Numbers 11:18 ; Numbers 11:19 ; Numbers 11:32
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Fowl — But God took away from them the use of their wings, and made them to fall into the hands of the Israelites.

²⁷ He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and featherede fowls like as the sand of the sea:

Related Commentaries of Psalms 78:27

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 78:27