Psalms 78:18

lust. soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they tempted God in their heart - Exodus 16:2 . The heart was the source of the evil. They were not satisfied with what he gave them. They a...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And they tempted God in their heart by (l) asking meat for their lust. (l) Then to require more than is necessary, and to separate God's power from...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

18. And they tempted God in their heart. This is the provocation of which mention is made in the preceding verse. Not that it was unlawful f...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. By asking meat for their lust - לנפשם lenaphsham, "for their souls," i.e., for the...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

By asking meat for their lust— See Hasselquist's Travels, p. 290.
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)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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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

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 b...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they tempted God in their heart ,.... Which is desperately wicked, and from whence all impiety flows; they entertained hard thoughts of God; the...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. Ver. 18. And they tempted God in their heart ] In their hearts first, but after...
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...
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

Tempted; desired a trial and proof of God's power, as the next verse plainly showeth. See Numbers 11:4 . For their lust; not for their necessa...
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

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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’...
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

And they tempted God in their heart, Matthew 15:19 , by asking meat for their lust, when they declared that their soul loathed the very sight of t...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:6 ; Exodus 16:2 ; Exodus 16:3 ; James 4:2 ; James 4:3 ; Numbers 11:4 ; Psalms 106:14 ; Psalms 106:15
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Tempted — Desired a proof of God's power. Lust — Not for their necessary subsistence, but out of an inordinate and luxurious appetite.

¹⁸ And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 78:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy 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 Biblical Illustrator

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 78:18