Psalms 78:51

strength. strengths (plural) Manly vigour. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the firstborn. Compare Genesis 49:3.Deuteronomy 21:17; Psalms 105:36.

tabernacles. tents. Hebrew. 'ohel. App-40.

Ham. Egypt. Compare Psalms 105:23; Psalms 105:27; Psalms 106:22.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 78:51

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And smote all the firstborn in Egypt - See Exodus 11:4-5 ; Exodus 12:29-30 . The chief of their strength - Those on whom they relied; their...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the (e) chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of (f) Ham: (e) The firstborn are so called, as in ( Gene...
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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! -The Israelites in the time of the Judges tempted God by forgett...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Tabernacles] RV 'tents.' Ham ] or Kem, meaning 'black,' because of the soil, was the Egyptian name for Egypt.
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

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 tha...
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, by way of remembrance, the prophet carries back the subject to the period of the church's deliverance at the time of the Egyptian bondage, and...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And smote all the firstborn in Egypt ,.... From the prince to the peasant; and not only the firstborn of men, but of beasts also, Exodus 12:29 ,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of Ham: Ver. 51. And smote all the firstborn in Egypt ] Ce...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He made a way to his anger By removing every obstacle that mercy had thrown in the path of justice, he made a way for his indignation, which then r...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies to Israel....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The chief of their strength; another expression noting the first-born, who are so called, Genesis 49:3 . Of Ham; of the Egyptians, the posteri...
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 Biblical Illustrator

And smote all the firstborn in Egypt;.. . but made His own people to go forth like sheep. God’s dealings with Egypt and Israel I. The punishmen...
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 smote all the first-born in Egypt, in the final plague, Exodus 12:29 ; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham, in the habitatio...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 12:12 ; Exodus 12:29 ; Exodus 12:30 ; Exodus 13:15 ; Genesis 10:6 ; Genesis 49:3 ; Genesis 9:22-25 ; Hebrews 11:28 ; Psalms 105:23 ;...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ham — Of the Egyptians, the posterity of Ham, the cursed children of a cursed parent.

⁵¹ And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

Related Commentaries of Psalms 78:51

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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 78:51