Psalms 78:66

the hinder parts. rear, or backward.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he smote his enemies in the hinder part - From behind; that is, as they fled. There are two ideas here: one, that they fled at his approach,...
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 he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. He smote his enemies in the hinder part - This refers to the hemor...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

He smote his enemies, &c.— This refers to the emrods of the Philistines, which were remembered to their everlasting disgrace, by the golde...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. -Now Yahweh awakes as one out of sleep, and d...
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

In the hinder parts] RV 'backward.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

He smote. — Possibly an allusion to 1 Samuel 5:9 , or else to the repeated defeats of the Philistines under Saul and David.
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

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 t...
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

The history of the church is pursued through all these verses. But we must look farther than the history, and particularly in the close of the Psalm,...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts ,.... Not the Israelites, as Kimchi interprets it, but the Philistines, who in another battle were put...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. Ver. 66. And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts ] viz. Wi...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep , &c. “While, by his permission, the Philistines were chastising his people for their sins, he held his...
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

Smote his enemies in the hinder part, with the disease of the emerods, which was both painful and shameful. He caused them to perpetuate their own...
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...
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

And He smote His enemies in the hinder parts, His blows raining down upon the backs, principally of the Philistines, who at that time were the chief...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 5:6 ; 1 Samuel 6:4 ; Jeremiah 23:40 ; Job 40:12
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Smote — Them with the piles. Reproach — He caused them to perpetuate their own reproach by sending back the ark of God with their golden emrods, th...

⁶⁶ And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 78:66

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake'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

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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

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 78:66