Exodus 16:12; Exodus 16:13; Numbers 11:18; Numbers 11:19; Numbers 11:32
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...
LXXVIII. The Lesson of Israel's History. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical...
rained. As in Psalms 78:24 . as the sand. Figure of speech Paroemia . App-6.
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
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...
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...
No doubt there is poetical hyperbole here, but for the enormous numbers of quails that are now caught, see the article quoted above.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Wonders Wrought in Behalf of Israel; The Crimes of the Israelites; Judgments Brought on the Israelites....
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...
INTRODUCTION Superscription,—“Maschil of Asaph ,” i.e. , an instruction of Asaph, a didactic song by Asaph. The Psalm was probably written by the...
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...
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...
Title. Maschil of Asaph. Rabbi Kimchi says, that this title, which signifies to give instruction, designates also the species of music or melody to...
EXPOSITION This, the first of the "historical psalms," though assigned by the rationalistic school (De Wette, Ewald, Koster, Hitzig) to a period...
The Narrative of God's Deeds
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...
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: