Exodus 8:21-24; Exodus 8:2-15; Psalms 105:30; Psalms 105:31; Revelation 16:3
He sent divers sorts of flies ... - The account of this plague is found in Exodus 8:24 . The word there used is simply “swarm,” without indicati...
He sent (b) divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. (b) This word signifies a confused mixture of fl...
LXXVIII. The Lesson of Israel's History. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical...
flies. The fourth plague ( Exodus 8:21 ). frogs. The second plague ( Exodus 8:5 ; Exodus 8:6 ).
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. He sent - flies - and frogs - See on Exodus 8:6 (no...
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...
Divers sorts] RV 'swarms.'
Divers sorts of flies. — Better, simply flies. See Note Exodus 8:21 . Frogs. — See Exodus 8:2 , and Bib. Ed., iv. 145.
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...
He sent divers sorts of flies among them ,.... This was the fourth plague; see Exodus 8:24 , the word signifies a "mixture" f, and the Targum rende...
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. Ver. 45. He sent divers sorts of flies among them...
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....
Devoured them; or, destroyed them ; which they might do by their cruel and numerous stings, for these flies were doubtless extraordinary in their...
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 sent divers sorts of flies among them, the insect pests of the fourth plague, Exodus 8:21-29 , which devoured them, and frogs, in the second pl...
Flies — These flies were doubtless extraordinary in their nature, and hurtful qualities. And the like is to be thought concerning the frogs.
45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.