Numbers 11:20; Psalms 106:15
So they did eat, and were well filled - The word rendered “well” here is intensive. It means that they were abundantly satisfied; that there was...
LXXVIII. The Lesson of Israel's History. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical...
So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
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...
Their own desire] RV 'that they lusted after.' 36, 37. There was no real change of heart. His covenant ] see Exodus 24:7 .
Desire. — See Numbers 11:34 , margin.
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...
So they did eat, and were well filled ,..... Or "exceedingly filled" m, or too much, as some versions render it; they eat to excess, not merely to s...
So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; Ver. 29. So they did eat, and were well filled ] But better they had fas...
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....
What they desired both for quality and quantity.
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
So they did eat and were well filled, falling upon the quails with the greatest greed; for He gave them their own desire.
29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;