Exodus 7:17-21; Psalms 105:29; Revelation 16:3-6
And had turned their rivers into blood - Exodus 7:20 . There was properly but one river in Egypt - the Nile. But there were several branches of...
LXXVIII. The Lesson of Israel's History. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical...
turned their rivers. The first plague ( Exodus 7:17 , &c).
44. When he turned their rivers into blood. The Psalmist does not enumerate in their order the miracles by which God gave evidence of his po...
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. Turned their rivers into blood - See on Exodus 7:20 (note).
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...
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...
Floods] RV 'streams.'
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...
“Signs in Egypt” Psalms 78:38-48 God takes into account the frailty and infirmity of our natures. The Spirit… helpeth our infirmities , Roman...
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...
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...
And had turned their rivers into blood ,.... The river Nile and its seven streams; this was the first of the plagues of Egypt, Exodus 7:20 , and wa...
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. Ver. 44. And had turned their rivers into blood, &c. ] Se...
How he had wrought his signs in Egypt Here the Psalm goes back to the subject of Israelitish ingratitude, (mentioned Psalms 78:11-12 ,) in order t...
Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies to Israel....
The several branches and streams of the river Nilus, and those many rivulets which they brought from it.
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
and had turned their rivers into blood, in the first general plague, Exodus 7:17 , and their floods, that they could not drink.
44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.